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Behind the celebrity factor, behind the recall circus, lies a tantalizing possibility. In his unique blend of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a genuinely new kind of politician, one that both parties have lamentably failed to provide in the past couple of decades. In our political wars...
The two leaders walked into a chemistry class playing a mock game show called “Balance This.” The students, Summers and the mayor mulled over an equation for the synthesis of magnesium nitrate.
It made little difference whether the calcium came from dairy foods or from a combination of dietary sources and supplements. It also didn't take much calcium to have an effect: an extra serving of dairy a day--a cup of milk or a thumb-size piece of cheese--translated...
For most scientists, God is irrelevant. And that is a very good thing. When science and religion intersect, an unseemly brawl (Galileo and the Church) or a synthesis that is an intellectual train wreck (creationism and “intelligent design theory”) usually result.
When Schimmel won the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1995 for her search for “a synthesis of Islam and the modern,’’ more than 200 German intellectuals protested her receipt of the award, citing her reported support of...