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...Noah's Ark as fact, complete with measurements and an inventory of all the animals aboard," wrote a Kansas man. Equally unconvinced was a Californian who declared, "Bringing together Christians, Jews and Muslims through their love of Abraham is about as likely as unifying them through a belief in Santa Claus." And a New Jersey reader went the furthest: "More important than recognizing the shared significance of Abraham would be acknowledging that the story itself is fiction. People rarely kill one another over the differences between Star Wars and Star Trek...
McDonald, who was known for his selflessness, his quiet leadership, and his remarkable resemblance to both Santa Claus and Ernest Hemingway, announced his resignation on September...
DIED. NORMAN O. BROWN, 89, critic-philosopher beloved of the counterculture; in Santa Cruz, Calif. In such books as Closing Time, a unique look at James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and Life Against Death, which analyzed history from a psychoanalytic perspective, Brown drew on Marx and Freud to produce original, erudite, occasionally baffling insights. "Reading Brown was a little like taking drugs," said a critic, "only it was more likely to lead to tenure...
...presented any legal challenges to cross-border plans, but it criticizes them. "We always have to be concerned with the quality," says former AMA president Richard Corlin, a gastroenterologist in Santa Monica, Calif. Corlin remembers a patient telling him about a medication he was taking, which Corlin immediately recognized as a drug banned a year earlier in the U.S. because it produced sometimes fatal heart arrhythmia. "He said, 'I get it in Mexico.' Is there someone controlling what they have access to and what they haven't? We do a pretty good job of that in this country...
...DIED. NAYA, 25, tree-sitter for Earth First!, an environmental group; after falling 30 meters from a redwood tree the organization was trying to protect from loggers; near Santa Cruz, California. Naya?known to fellow activists only by his "tree name"?was a homeless man who joined the group recently. He spent 12 hours on a platform in the redwood canopy before falling...