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...Science deserve much of the credit. Retired meteorologist Len van Burgel's task was to provide wind data from that long-ago November to help trace where debris from the Kormoran, found drifting days after the battle, could have come from. With no ocean wind reports available from that time, van Burgel dug through archives and extrapolated from land weather charts, then used computers and satellite imagery to model 1941 conditions. When the three approaches yielded similar results, he says, "we thought we were on to a good thing." Drift specialists could then identify where the German ship was likely...
With the Republican nomination under his belt, John McCain's next task is vetting possible running mates. There are several laps to go--the vice-presidential candidate probably won't be chosen until this summer--but here's a look at the early odds...
...face a shattered world. The shambles are many, scattered, and exceedingly sharp. In this way, we have much cause for despair. But, we face this task together—and in this, there is much hope...
...expanded across the board, the popularity of the liberal arts—which has no direct professional application, save in academia—has decreased, particularly since so many undergraduates seek lucrative jobs in finance, law, and medicine. According to English professor Louis Menand, who co-chaired the task force to redesign Harvard’s general education requirements, this trend of decreasing interest in non-applied fields is not new. “The percentage of bachelor’s degrees in the liberal arts against all bachelor’s degrees that are given every year has been...
...little-reported remarks just three months after his controversial speech in Germany, the Pope spoke of the challenge posed to Islam by a violent minority within its ranks. "The Muslim world today is finding itself faced with an urgent task. This task is very similar to the one that has been imposed upon Christians since the Enlightenment," Benedict said in a speech to officials of the Roman Curia. "On the one hand, one must counter a dictatorship of positivist reason that excludes God from the life of the community and from public organizations, thereby depriving man of his specific criteria...