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...Until Hanks turns his attention to the rest of history - say, Jane Addams and the settlement-house movement, the railroad expansion across the continental U.S., the women's-rights movements - it's the same old wars and battles, planned and fought by men, that bored me in school. Karen McFarland Dexter, Mich...
...offered dialogue with the red shirts' leaders, but no amount of talking over the past four years has resulted in any political conciliation. Equally distressing for Thais, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, often considered an arbiter of last resort in Thai politics, has been hospitalized since last September. The 82-year-old monarch stepped in during key crises in Thai history, like in 1992 when soldiers gunned down dozens of democracy activists. Millions of Thais have been waiting for their beloved monarch to weigh in on the recent demonstrations. So far, he hasn't said a word...
...significance of the God particle is as old as time itself: scientists believe that at the moment of the Big Bang, when the universe was born, there existed a moment of incandescent beauty - of perfect symmetry - in which all things and all forces were in absolute agreement. The universe's four forces - the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism and gravity - had yet to differentiate, and the tiny particles that carried those forces had yet to emerge as separate entities. As the explosion cooled and its contents scattered, complexity engulfed the universe, splitting its symmetry asunder - a cosmic parallel to Adam...
Although a rocket-scientist-turned-local-politician may not be the typical American dream, it’s safe to say Leland Cheung is doing quite well for himself. In fact, the 32-year-old graduate student has quite the resume...
...wearing or doing something more goal-oriented. Jennifer Weber says the site helped her catch the marathon bug. "When all these people around you are doing it, you look at them and think, 'Well, if they can run a marathon ...,' " she says. "It spreads like wildfire." The 23-year-old ran her first marathon not long after moving across the country to New York City for her first postcollege job and is now training for her third big race. (Disclosure: She's a friend I met while studying abroad a few years ago, and her status updates are what alerted...