Word: propheteer
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...gray matter that conceived E=mc2 or the fact that it was the week after a full moon, but something prompted an outburst of weirdness in response to the June 28 Science story on Einstein's brain. The first symptom was the declaration from Missouri's self-proclaimed "Prophet King" Kenna Farris: "I would allow science to study my brain, as Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar (a possessor of a Universal Mind...
...actor I have a goal and obligation--and desire--to portray him as a character [just as I would any other character]...as a man who has this amazing secret that he wants to tell everybody. It's good news, but it's like Cassandra the prophet [whose predictions of defeat for the Trojans in the Trojan War went unheeded]: you're preaching the truth, but no one believes...
...only mosque (204 Prospect St., next to Pennypacker; 876-3546; Services and weekly discussion groups Friday 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.). Each discussion group features a sermon, given by someone in the community, emphasizing the rules of Islam and stories of the prophet Muhammad. The Islamic society also organizes social gatherings for its members...
...historymaker, Serena transfigured her family as well. She, her sister Venus and their father Richard were no longer the loudest mouths on the tennis circuit. She had shown the world that her father was not just some voice crying in the wilderness but a true prophet. He had long predicted his daughters would dominate the world of women's tennis. Daddy did know best...
Will future generations regard the vanishing Quelccaya ice cap as a false prophet or as a climatological Cassandra whose warnings were not heeded? Ohio State's Thompson, for one, believes nature has already answered this question. An ice cap has no political opinions, he observes. "Quelccaya is melting because the earth's temperature is going up," he says, "and it's foolish to argue that...