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It is this hubris, advocating her opinion as truth, that is too much. When she states that "some people just don't want to hear the truth," she can't be referring to lesbians and gays. Scientific truth is on our side. She must mean faith. If so, that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter: A Gay and Lesbian Organization Responds to Dr. Laura | 7/9/2000 | See Source »

It was a very different vision that faced me on the day of the race. The Thames I encountered was narrow, gray, and dotted with dark patches of choppy waves. Dingy black barges made their way up and down the race course, drawing little water. Our centerboard caught in the...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Class Conflict on the Thames | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

Sierra Leone, admitted a top U.N. official last week, "is a perfect model for everything that can go wrong in a peacekeeping operation." It began when the merciless rebel leader Foday Sankoh adopted a singularly ruthless strategy: if you terrorize enough civilians--raping girls, mutilating children, burning houses--the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Peace Cannot Be Kept | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Parents, for the most part, have also been silent, trusting the experts--the teachers' organizations and math educators. Several reform curricula do not provide textbooks in the usual sense, and this deprives parents of one important source of information. Yet, also among parents, attitudes may be changing. A recent front...

Author: By Wilfried Schmid, | Title: New Battles in the Math Wars | 5/4/2000 | See Source »

WHICH WAY OUT? Here's a scientific explanation for all those arguments with your spouse over directions. Researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany scanned the brains of men and women as they tried to escape a 3-D virtual-reality maze and found that the sexes use different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Apr. 10, 2000 | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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