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...theory. He admits it's "farfetched," and even those scientists who find it stimulating think it's wildly improbable. But it does have one thing in its favor. The biocosm theory is an attempt, albeit a highly speculative one, to solve what just might be science's most profound mystery: why the universe, against all odds, is so remarkably hospitable to life...
...astronomers hoped they might find an underlying principle that would explain why the planets orbit at the precise distances they do. But now we know the orbits are the result of pure chance. The elliptical shapes of planetary orbits, on the other hand, led to the truly profound discovery of Newton's laws of gravity. "My own feeling," says Brian Greene, a superstring theorist at Columbia University and author of the best-selling The Fabric of the Cosmos, "is that we can give a deeper explanation of why this universe, with its particular properties, came...
...Despite their seemingly profound geopolitical differences, the leaders of all three of these countries had harbored scarcely concealed hopes that they would soon be rid of Bush. As the ballots came in, they recognized that they had miscalculated?badly. South Korea's Blue House, for one, called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council after the outcome became clear. Why the alarm? Because Pyongyang, Beijing and Seoul are all co-dependents in that great ongoing geostrategic A.A. meeting known as the "North Korean nuclear crisis." Dubya, meanwhile, is a confirmed purveyor of The Cure...
...differences for the sake of the children. Chirac insisted that the Iraq war was "the one and only issue" on which they had fought. "What matters really is all that we have in common in the present and for the future," he said. In fact they continue to have profound disagreements. Chirac distrusts American power, especially as exercised by George W. Bush, and wants to build up Europe as "an independent pole" in world affairs. Blair has denounced that impulse as "the most dangerous game of international politics I know." In a major foreign policy speech last week, he stressed...
...spite of everything, people will hate Encore. Fairweather fans, I say, and not because it’s a bad album—but because Eminem is going through troubles more profound than any he’s ever faced before. Taken for all its awkwardness and self-conscious anxiety, Encore is the dirtied summary of an existential crisis—a tumultuous internal battle that Eminem will undoubtedly resolve on his next, most likely classic, and most likely final album. In the meantime, he shoots his entire audience with a pistol at the end of the record...