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...Malebranche believes that God first created a set of simple laws, and under them created the best world possible. A world with less evil might exist, he believes, but only if God made a world whose laws of nature were much more complex. Arnauld, taking a similar approach to that of Liebniz, believes that if the world is considered as a whole, the good and the evil included, it is—despite its imperfections—the best world God could have created. While Nadler clearly lays out the argument of each philosopher, the strength of his book lies...
...past, animal-abusing industries have relied on lobbyists to keep effective regulation at bay—with the result that no federal law exists to ensure humane standards on America’s farms. When animal advocates brought a bill to California’s State Assembly similar to Proposition Two, it never left the Agriculture Committee...
...Tuesday night, America’s voters sidelined such lobbyists. The National Pork Producers Council responded with shock: Its president, Bryan Black, was quoted in Pork Magazine worrying that California could be a “bellwether” for similar initiatives in other states. For the sake of the animals, let’s hope he’s right...
...school - with the latter almost certainly guaranteeing lower future earning potential. "You know that the kids sent in that direction are going to be from low-income, less-educated families while wealthy parents won't permit it," says Iris Rotberg, a George Washington University education policy professor, who notes similar results in Europe and Asia. She predicts, in turn, that disparity will mean "an even more polarized higher education structure - and ultimately society - than we already have...
...starting to rethink that. Travel writer Tim Leffel and his girlfriend set out on a year-long 'round-the-globe trot in 1993 having similar destination-based differences. "I had not wanted to go to India at all," he says. "I thought it would be hot, dirty and depressing. Now I'm really glad I went." India was hot, dirty and depressing. But Leffel's girlfriend is now his wife...