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...facing Mecca. Instead, Alevis pray in a circle, facing each other. In place of Islamic law, they have a 40-step process for achieving the mystical sense of oneness preached by Muhammad in the Koran's early verses. To create a single curriculum for Germany, the Alevis recruited a panel of people drawn from various parts of Turkey and began putting their oral traditions on paper. "The core of Alevism is simple and humanistic," K??k says. "That means we don't bog down in matters of dogma concerning this verse or that one. So we've found it easier...
...quiet battle is raging over the Bush Administration's plan to appoint a scantily credentialed doctor, whose writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy. Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings...
...advisory panels often have near-final say over crucial health questions. If Hager becomes chairman of the 11-member Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, he will lead its study of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, one of the biggest controversies in health care. Some conservatives are trying to use doubts about such therapy to discredit the use of birth-control pills, which contain similar compounds. The panel also made the key recommendation in 1996 that led to approval of the "abortion pill," RU-486-a decision that abortion foes are still fighting. Hager assisted the Christian Medical Association last...
Ferguson, who has in previous years served as a visiting professor at NYU, will attend NYU’s Second Global Alumni Conference in Florence, Italy, at the end this month, participating the panel “From the Medici to Morgan: High Finance and High Culture...
...American political system," says R.J. Cutler, who produced the documentary The War Room about the 1992 Clinton campaign. Applicants will submit a petition signed by 50 people and a 30-minute video. They'll be narrowed down to a field of semifinalists of various ideologies by a panel of political experts. Then the audience will winnow the field in a process involving debates and politicking (but, please God, not Ryan Seacrest). The winner will be chosen during an on-air "convention" around July 4, then decide whether to run. (The show is still ironing out details such...