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...Premier is respected and admired at home, especially among lowincome, less-educated groups of Middle Eastern origin, for his mystical devotion to Eretz Israel (the land of Israel, including the biblical provinces of Samaria and Judea, which is how Begin refers to the West Bank). At the same time, many Israelis doubt his capacity to lead his country to peace because they fear he is too rigid, too suspicious of the Arabs, whom he barely knows, and too traumatized by Jewish history. His harshest critics call him a Yehudi Galuti, a Diaspora Jew, and it is true that...
Leakey, a small, spunky woman of 64, is the widow of the famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, who died in 1972. Some four decades ago, when she and Louis were beginning their quest for the origins of man, they worked for a time in a remote area of northern Tanzania called Laetolil?the site of her latest find. But after unearthing nothing more than a few distinctly non-manlike animal remains, they moved on to Olduvai Gorge, 25 miles to the north, where their fossil discoveries were to push back man's lineage by at least a million years...
...finite moment of infinite density and heat, at time zero, is the origin of the universe," he said...
Speaking on the topic of his recently published book, "The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe," Weinberg said that at its origin, the universe was composed solely of radiation and sub-atomic particles...
When asked what was present before the origin of the universe, Weinberg said, "The belief that there was anything before time zero is a common misapprehension of which I am sure physics will rid us someday...