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...best in German history). None of these arguments would necessarily persuade the Nazi, but we can’t know until we try.11.FM: Could you tell Voldemort that the Dark Arts are wrong?MJS: That would be a hopeless task, even for a philosopher.12.FM: You’ve taught “Justice” to well over a 10,000 people, many of whom are or soon will be pretty influential. What if your theories are wrong and there are 10,000 people powerful walking around the world with the wrong idea of justice?MJS: I would worry...
...months ago, Liu Lichun didn't know her breast could contain cancer. No one had taught the 40-year-old Chinese woman from Inner Mongolia what the disease was. She'd never heard of a mammogram or mastectomy. It had thus never occurred to her that she would lose her left breast to the mysterious illness nor that such a loss would probably save her life...
...Rugby, a Means to an End Re: "The Black Arts" [Sept. 17], it is diffi-cult to understand why your reporter Daniel Williams should single out the Springboks for being "brutal." After all, both the South Africans and the New Zealanders were originally taught this game by Scottish Presbyterians. The dour Scots obviously never fathomed the English humor in the ridiculous 16-man scrum. It was all meant as a joke, to keep robust adolescent schoolboys occupied during winter - when they could not play cricket. Deon Thom George, South Africa
...surprising that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn still regularly riles parents when it's taught in school; Mark Twain's 1884 classic is soaked with racial epithets. Some of the other books challenged or banned from classrooms or libraries in the past year are more unexpected. To see a list compiled with the help of the American Library Association, for early October's Banned Books Week, go to time.com/bannedbooks...
Part of the problem is that increasingly, the people teaching yoga don't know enough about it. Yoga was traditionally taught one-on-one by a yogi over a period of years, but today instructors can lead a class after just a weekend course. Though the Yoga Alliance, formed in 1999 and now based in Clinton, Md., has set a minimum standard of 200 hours of training for certification, only 16,168 of the estimated 70,000 instructors in the U.S. have been certified. "Yoga means bringing together mind, body and spirit, but in Western yoga, we've distilled...