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...Family Dinner. June Cleaver is in an apron and pearls, Ward in a sweater and tie. The napkins are linen, the children are scrubbed, steam rises from the green-bean casserole, and even the dog listens intently to what is being said. This is where the tribe comes to transmit wisdom, embed expectations, confess, conspire, forgive, repair. The idealized version is as close to a regular worship service, with its litanies and lessons and blessings, as a family gets outside a sanctuary...
...fact, the papacy has allowed the once aspiring university star to transmit his ideas with an assured public presence matured over his years in the upper ranks of the Vatican hiearchy. And more than ever the piercing intellect of Professor Ratzinger will hold sway over the entire spectrum of Catholic Church life - its customs, policies, institutions and, naturally, the papacy itself. The changes now on the way were being worked out well before a Benedict papacy was in the cards. In the throes of John Paul?s greatest popularity, Cardinal Ratzinger was looking for ways to rein in the papacy...
...evolved to a technological state.” According to Bruce Betts, the Planetary Society’s director of projects, aliens who are only as technologically advanced as we are could be sending brief optical signals across the galaxy. “With Earth technology 2006, we can transmit pulse lasers that outshine the sun by a factor of 10,000, but you have to look very quickly,” Betts said in a phone interview Tuesday. Most SETI work has focused on detecting messages encoded in microwave emissions, according to Horowitz. But he said that aliens might...
...journey to the future. But technology let her down--for the moment. Atwood, Canadian author of the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin, came up with the idea for a telerobotic writing device that permits an author to remotely inscribe books. The first public test of the LongPen, which can transmit a pen stroke written on an electronic tablet to a robotic pen-wielding arm, took place last week. Atwood, at a book fair in London, prepared to sign books across the Atlantic: in New York City and Guelph...
...proved to be the better dancers, but laughs were had by all. In later dances, like the semi-classical and the ever-popular bhangra, elements of modern and classical Indian culture and dance were combined quite successfully, allowing dancers, dressed beautifully in colorful clothing, to enjoy themselves and transmit that enjoyment to the audience. The Senior Dance, performed and choreographed by members of the class of 2005, closed out the first act and was intricately staged considering the huge amount of dancers involved. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the whole night was not an act at all?...