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...such action, or demand, for that matter, has occurred in the case of the Christians. Apparently, Harvard’s Christians are used to being slighted.Harvard was founded by Puritans as a place of study for clergymen. As it grew into a more modern and progressive institution, the University shed its Christian roots and began admitting a wide range of religious backgrounds. Today, the University is rolling in religious diversity. Dharma, the campus Hindu organization, is booming: the Harvard Islamic Society recently organized an entire week of Islam awareness, and campus Jewish students flock to Hillel nightly. Ironically, in this...
Those archaic plants prepared the way for the tetrapods. The plants created new aquatic habitats by stabilizing the banks of rivers and streams. They pumped oxygen into the atmosphere, making the earth habitable for large, air-breathing creatures. And they shed organic debris that formed the basis of a new food chain. Bacteria, fungi and small arthropods (the animal group that includes crustaceans and insects) moved in to feed on the debris; small fish moved in to eat the arthropods; bigger fish moved in to eat the small fish. Among them were the fishapod's lobe-finned ancestors, which found...
...Australia, says Adelaide author Mark Thomson, who's writing a book about the people he calls "resourceful problem solvers." Some backyard tinkerers and rural handymen, he says, "will spend an enormous amount of time and effort doing a repair job with bits and pieces they've got in their shed. When it's fixed and it works, it's a real victory that you've done it yourself and it hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says Wendy Hucker, of the Pioneer Women's Hut museum at Tumbarumba, New South Wales: "People...
Meanwhile, studies using advanced scanning technology have shed new light on how hypnosis works to block pain. In a report published two years ago in the journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Dr. Sebastian Schulz-Stübner of the University of Iowa reported using heat-producing thermodes to measure the pain thresholds of 12 healthy volunteers ("painful" stimuli earning a rating of 8 or higher on a 10-point scale). When the participants were hypnotized and re-exposed to the thermodes, all 12 reported feeling significantly reduced pain (with ratings of 3 or lower) or no pain...
...incentive to pressure women into ending unwanted pregnancies. Some threaten to break up with their partner if she doesn't get an abortion. There is concern that violence against pregnant women is fueled by men trying to avoid a financial liability. So Dubay could argue that allowing men to shed their financial obligations for unwanted children might protect women from all kinds of pressure when they are deciding how to handle an unplanned pregnancy...