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...Kansas, both taught by professors with doctorates from Harvard, will evaluate the fiercely contested issue of intelligent design and its place in science classrooms. The planned courses have incited resistance, largely due to the professors’ use of the term “mythology” in reference to intelligent design. Kansas has been at the center of the debate over intelligent design, the theory that natural selection cannot account for all of life’s evolution and that an “intelligent designer” must have guided the process. The Kansas Education Board recently voted...
...from Oklahoma who rejected Harvard in favor of a state university, I don’t want to be a housewife. And although I come from Alabama, a state “where not very many students come to Harvard,” I usually don’t refer to people who live in New England as “a bunch of elitist northern Yankees,” as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 says many other students from similar states...
...best prenatal clinics, doctors and genetic counselors try to provide a full picture of the rewards and risks of raising a child with this disorder. They refer interested patients to support groups. About half of babies born with Down have heart defects, though thanks to improved treatment, their average expected lifespan has doubled, from 25 in 1983 to 56 today. A higher risk of leukemia, infectious disease and dementia are also in the picture...
Like many women in her age group--whom fashion marketers refer to as the baby-boomer generation of women, 35 and up--Deneen has money to spend on clothing but doesn't feel there are many options on the retail horizon. Department stores such as Macy's and Dillard's, where Deneen and her contemporaries have traditionally shopped, fall short. The common complaints are that the merchandise is not compelling (who needs another beige pantsuit?) and the service levels have declined so much that shopping is no longer enjoyable...
...help the U.S. identify insurgents are equally unwilling to cooperate with the U.S.-trained Iraqi forces, whom some xenophobic Fallujis consider foreigners. The cops are public-order battalions from Baghdad, and the Iraqi army units are made up almost exclusively of Shi'ites from southern Iraq. While locals still refer to U.S. troops as occupiers, some think the Iraqi troops are worse. "When Iraqi soldiers get inside the city, they start frightening the people by attacking them and shooting in the air," says Um Muhammed, 44, a housewife. "The Iraqi army wants revenge...