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...behavior ranging from the benignly bizarre to the frighteningly dangerous. When people seek truth based on faith rather than evidence, their decisions are connected to reality only coincidentally and are often divorced from it. The risks that we all face when powerful people act on untested beliefs should be obvious. I can only hope that one day the majority will embrace candidates for whom reason, rather than God, is their adviser. Brendan Cameron Vancouver...
Does being more of a father make you less of a man? To a group of committed dads assembled one night in a New Jersey diner, the answer is obvious. Sort of. Paul Haley, 38, a father of two, says women look at him when he walks down the street with his kids. "I think it's admiration," he says. Adam Wolff, also 38--with two kids and one on the way--ponders what it means to be a man. "Is my man-ness about being the breadwinner or being a good father to my kids or something else?" Michael...
...shame that our world leaders, faced with an imminent crisis, can think only of their wallets. The rapid melting of the Arctic ice cap is the most obvious consequence of a global climate change that has the potential to cause increases in species loss, infectious disease and extreme weather events. Instead of focusing on how to solve this impending tragedy, politicians are fighting to exploit it. Elina El-Badry Gaithersburg, Maryland...
...Perhaps the most widely criticized flaw in Harvard’s tenure system is the obvious lack of diversity among tenured professors, particularly with regard to gender. This became a more urgent issue when the percentage of full professorships offered to women dipped from 19 percent in the ’02-’03 term to 13 percent in ’03-’04 school year...
...answer, for some, is obvious. Many, like Senator Craig, lead public lives in conflict with their private desires. Many are married. Some are married couples who want someone to come to their home dressed as a cat. (“Please state in your response why you believe that you are qualified for this position,” ends the post, somewhat surprisingly.) But for others, like the scrawny, white, and heavily tattooed “Mr. Cool Ice,” there is a simpler reason. They don’t want to appear pathetic. And at least among...