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...board changes the current policy, Dover's ninth-graders will no longer be given a statement asserting that "the theory [of evolution] is not a fact" and that i.d.--the notion that some sort of mind guided the origin and development of life--is a valid alternative. Virtually no scientist agrees with i.d. proponents, and a group of Dover parents sued the board on the basis that i.d. is a religious, not a scientific, idea. That trial ended earlier this month, and the federal judge hearing the case will rule by January...
...operatic style could haunt him. In a kind of public drama rarely heard of in the circumspect world of French politics, Sarkozy's wife Cecilia dumped him for another man last summer and is about to publish a tell-all book. "France is a conservative country," says political scientist Dominique Reynié, "and Sarkozy causes conflict and perturbation at every turn." France may prefer its politicians decorous, its weekends long and its conflicts discreet. But after the shocking depredations of recent days, Sarkozy is betting that his compatriots are ready to get tough...
BROOKS: I think there's a level of exhaustion. Plus you have to remind yourself that the partisanship of the parties was never reflective of the country. I've never met a political scientist who thinks public opinion in the country is polarized. There's a big middle on abortion, gay marriage, every single issue, and it really hasn't changed in 30 years...
...seen as political alchemists who can turn conservative and rural voters into Democrats. Analysts said Kilgore hurt himself with some of his own supporters with a heavily negative television ad that invoked Hitler in playing up Kaine's resistance to the death penalty. Robert F. Denton, a political scientist at Virginia Tech, said older Republicans were turned off by the intensity and quantity of the Kilgore attacks: "The grayer their hair, the madder they were at Kilgore...
...scientific research has been in areas connected to optical phenomena, and I can tell you a lot about the Rayleigh-scattering answer. Neither I nor any other scientist, however, has anything scientific to say about answer No. 2, the God answer. Not to say that the God answer is unscientific, just that the methods of science don't speak to that answer...