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...everyone should read On the Origin of Species: "Great books of science, like all great books, are worth reading not just for what they add to objective knowledge; they are worth reading because they advance our liberal education. Just as we don't read Dante for a sneak peek at the afterlife or because we expect someday to be confronted with a diabolical architecture of circles within circles and punishments suited to our sins, we don't read Darwin because what he says is what scientists now believe - much of it isn't. We read him because a book...
...women share the quiet competitiveness that often exists between two Senators of the same state and party. Collins is more comfortable in front of television cameras than is Snowe, who often looks for a side staircase where she can sneak away from the klieg lights. Though they typically work in tandem for their state, they do so in very different ways, just as they have on the stimulus negotiations. Snowe, a senior member of the Finance Committee, worked on the tax provisions; Collins, recently named to the Appropriations Committee, focused on spending. Collins, who voted for the George W. Bush...
...slaughter because orthodox Hindus revere them, but the animals are in great demand in mainly Muslim, meat-eating Bangladesh. An organized network of herders and trucks carries cows across the northern plains of India to cattle markets near the border, where they are dispatched to smugglers who try to sneak them over in ones and twos. The smugglers quickly learned how to get around the fence: the latest in smuggling technology involves a jury-rigged contraption of bamboo poles, iron hooks and old barbed wire used to haul small cows up and over the 10-ft.-high (3 m) fencing...
...monkeys, a Minotaur and that white unicorn. This cast traipses in and out of more small dark rooms than someone looking for a studio apartment in New York City. And when they're not being thrown in a dungeon, they're either fleeing from the castle or trying to sneak back in. Whatever they seek, they generally find, but then forget...
...best chance to boost its lead came midway through the third period, as Bulldog Matt Nelson accepted a pass behind the net and released a fast wraparound shot right on frame.Foiling Nelson’s efforts, Riley blocked the attempt in a replay-worthy save.The Bulldogs managed to sneak one goal past the junior netminder with 4:04 left in the final frame, but the play was contested by Harvard, as it seemed that Yale’s Brian O’Neill had charged the goalie. The referees reviewed the play, and though O’Neill was sent...