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...Joann R. Dorsch asks: "Will evolutionists ever give up and simply admit that God created us?" The answer is no. As long as there is so much evidence in favor of evolution and so little in favor of the Book of Genesis, we will search for man's origin...
...Kuala Lumpur, some 70 Americans and Soviets, as well as weather watchers from Asian and other countries, are beginning the first systematic profile of an annual monsoon cycle. Gathering data from an area of some 28 million sq. mi., the scientists have two lofty goals: to explore the origin of monsoon winds so they can be predicted with greater accuracy and to fit the role of monsoons into global weather patterns...
...press bus in the presidential motorcade. After eliminating irrelevant noises like the motorcycle engine, they identified four separate "high spike" sounds that they say were gunfire (to the ear, no gunshots are discernible when the tape is played normally). Their technique, they say, enables them to locate the origin of a sound to within two feet, and they claim that the fourth shot (actually the third in the sequence) was definitely from the grassy knoll...
...birth of Christ. It was to steer the energies of the celebrants into more pious channels-so says Francis X. Weiser, S.J., in The Christmas Book that the church in the 4th century picked, as Christmas Day, exactly the date that signaled the end of the Roman Saturnalia. The origin of the celebrations at least raises the question of which came first, seasonal malaise or the celebrations? Could it be that the rituals cure far more gloom than they precipitate? Surely such issues should not be abdicated entirely to social pathologists...
This is a George Wallace-style "send a message to Washington" proposal. It would prohibit assignment of students to any public school on the basis of race, creed, color or national origin. But since this would be merely a state provision, and the federal courts have jurisdiction (as in the Boston and Springfield desegregation cases) to order busing for racial balance, Question 6 will make no legal difference; it's just a chance for the anti-busing forces to get their...