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...Donald Eigler: "The single-atom switch looks small until you realize it took a whole roomful of equipment to make it work." Still, computer chips the size of bacteria and motors as small as molecules of myosin are rapidly moving out of the world of fantasy and into the realm of possibility. "For years, scientists have been taking atoms and molecules apart in order to understand them," says futurist K. Eric Drexler, president of the Foresight Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. "Now it's time to start figuring out how to put them together to make useful things." With such...
LOUIS I. KAHN: IN THE REALM OF ARCHITECTURE, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Drawings, scale models and photographs revealing the work of one of the most sublime builders of the 20th century. Through...
...1870s an influential movement, based on the medieval craft guilds, managed to overthrow the "gigantic weariness" of Victorian design. Philosophers and artisans worked together, raising tables and chairs, textiles, kitchenware -- even fireplace ornaments -- to the realm of art. Their achievements still glow in this profuse and discerning history...
...separation doctrine, Lemon v. Kurtzman, came in 1971, when the court struck down Pennsylvania and Rhode Island laws that set subsidies for the salaries of parochial school teachers. Referring to earlier cases, the Justices proposed a threefold test to determine the permissibility of government activities that touched the religious realm. First, state action must have a secular purpose. Second, the primary effect of the action must neither advance nor inhibit religion. And finally, there should be no "excessive entanglement" between church and state...
...classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is -- and has been -- far too high. The courts need to find a better balance between separation and accommodation -- and Americans need to respect the new religious freedom they would gain...