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...chain e-mail of unknown origin soon began making its way into Catholic inboxes, warning of an imminent threat to the anti-abortion cause. "For those of you who do not know," it read, "the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is set to be signed if Congress passes it on January 21-22 of 2009. The FOCA is the next sick chapter in the book of abortion." The e-mail urged Catholics to say a novena - a devotion of dedicated prayer for nine successive days - beginning on Jan. 11 and ending the day prior to Inauguration Day. (See pictures...
...world that’s not entirely bearable for a contemporary reader. Most modern readers aren’t out there reading “Clarissa.” Have you? FM: Nope! JL: Yeah. It’s long. It seems hackneyed, because it’s the origin of these further conventions, so we couldn’t actually keep complete fidelity to the sensibility.6.FM: It seems that you’re hoping it will be kind of a gateway drug into these 18th-century novels. What would you hope that a reader would gain just by reading...
Throughout the day, events like the Darwin Day Symposium and an Origin of Species read-a-thon explained the scientific basis of Darwin’s theories and offered a glimpse into the private life of Darwin...
...know I haven’t read the entirety of The Origin of Species, and it’s interesting for me to see exactly how he presents his ideas,” Rosenberg said...
...foreign ministers continue to debate the issue, and thus far it appears that the only Guantanamo detainees that could eventually end up in Europe are those who have not been charged with a crime, but who risk persecution if returned to their country of origin. Some 60 of the 260 current prisoners on the US military base in southeastern Cuba fit that description...