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...dignity in an unreasonable, extreme way. Manji asks Muslims to "own up" to the negative ideas that radicals find in the Koran. But that does nothing to rectify the situation or change the system. Change is needed - not just personal change but social change as well. Lisa Alarcon Stanford, California, U.S. The biggest threat posed to the civilized world by religious radicals of all stripes is their inability to doubt or question dogma that is clearly immoral in today's world. It is past time for prominent leaders from all the world's major religions to express a genuine commitment...
Google is also scanning books from the collections of Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library...
...process mostly by computer. Other schools such as Johns Hopkins and Tufts first divide up students based on dorm preferences and then assign roommates by hand—working, by that point, with much smaller pools of students. Of the nine colleges The Crimson contacted, only Dartmouth and Stanford also match roommates entirely by hand...
...next 2,000 years--first in Egypt and then for the past 80 years or so in the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, Calif. But for several months, the girl--who has been nicknamed Sherit, an ancient Egyptian word meaning "little one"--has been visiting the Stanford-NASA National Biocomputation Center in nearby Palo Alto. There, doctors and other scientists, working with imaging experts from Silicon Graphics, have been unwrapping her--not physically, which would cause enormous damage, but virtually. Using more than 60,000 high-resolution X-ray images from scans that produce 35 times as much information...
Rice didn't plan for this role. As she neared her 50th birthday last November, friends say, Rice had decided to leave Washington and return to Stanford. "She made it pretty clear to us that she was planning on coming home after four years," says a former Stanford colleague and close friend. But shortly after Bush won re-election, he told Rice he would promote her to Secretary of State. "She went from default mode to return home to a much more active determination to stay," says the friend. "She said, 'I think there are some interesting things...