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...slightly different agendas, but they all have the same goal: to spread Islamic rule throughout the West. Americans have three choices: submit to their will, convert to Islam or fight. I prefer that we - and all freedom-loving people - stand up to terrorism no matter who is sponsoring it. Robert Reichert Punta Gorda, Florida, U.S. Beyer's statement that Hizballah's main goal is "to defend Lebanon from Israel" is appalling. Anyone who understands Arabic or has listened to Hizballah's occasional statements in English knows that the group aims to destroy Israel. To doubt that is to accept...
...skull cited as evidence that it belonged to a separate species?such as a nearly absent chin?can be found in modern Flores pygmies. The fact that pygmies can still be found living just down the road from the original excavation site helped clinch the argument for Robert Eckhardt, a developmental geneticist at Pennsylvania State University and a PNAS paper co-author. "If you look throughout the area, there are plenty of populations where the average male is under a meter and a half and females are shorter," he says. "If the people there are short now, so were...
...Killers Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel The Ernest Hemingway story, about two tough guys in a diner, is one of the most influential works in American lit; without it, no Pulp Fiction. The 1946 movie expands the action with a long flashback about the gangster's prey, a haunted boxer called Swede (Burt Lancaster in his first movie). The 1964 version has murderous Lee Marvin tangling with the even more venal Ronald Reagan (in his last movie). The set also includes a third film, a short by renegade Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky...
...DIED. Robert Hoffman, 59, sharp-witted former Coca-Cola executive and philanthropist who in 1969, along with two fellow Harvard students, co-founded the pioneering satirical magazine National Lampoon; of leukemia; in Dallas. The magazine, an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon, took wry, sometimes outrageous jabs at the rich and famous. In a photo essay it once posited that Richard Nixon, then serving his first term in office, was in fact dead...
...have demonstrated, for the first time, that human embryonic stem cells can be generated without interfering with the embryo's potential for life." --ROBERT LANZA, leader of a team that has developed a method to harvest and grow human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryos. Scientists and politicians say questions about viability and ethics remain...