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Just two days before the tsunami, the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn received instructions from this frail little species three planetary orbits away, and proceeded to detach and launch its Huygens probe to fly suicidally down to the giant moon Titan--measuring, sensing, learning and teaching through its final descent. All for one purpose: to satisfy the hunger for knowledge of a species three-quarters of a billion miles away...
SHOULD THE DEATHS OF MORE THAN 150,000 PEOPLE FROM THE TSUNAMI AFFECT OUR IMAGE OF GOD? Actually, our image of God is outmoded anyway, whether the tsunami occurs or not. Religion has become divisive, quarrelsome and idiotic. Religion is the reason we have all this conflict in the world. We have squeezed God into the volume of a body and the span of a lifetime; given God a male identity, an ethnic background; made him a tribal chief and gone to war. Yet people are not ready to forsake their image...
...much has been raised, but so little has come my way. Is all the money going to Aceh?" ARIFFIN MANSOOR, Malaysian fisherman, on the shortage of relief aid in Kedah state, where 2,300 fishing boats were destroyed by the Dec. 26 tsunami...
...Tsunami is a Japanese word, of course, but it's been included in the Oxford English Dictionary since 1897. But since last month's tragedy, which left an estimated 160,000 dead, the term has taken on a whole new gravity?and manufacturers and advertisers have quickly adjusted. As Global Language Monitor's Paul Payack puts it, "The word tsunami will be the subject of considerable discretion before being used in anything other than a most serious manner." Here are some changes since the disaster...
...WHAT'S IN A NAME? Toyota Canada's special edition Celica Tsunami, available in color schemes like "thundercloud" and promising a "new wave of bold style," was renamed the Celica Sports Package last week out of sensitivity to the tsunami victims. Across the Atlantic, South African food franchise Mugg and Bean dropped its bacon-and-Thai-sauce Tsunami chicken burger (although it plans to revive a renamed sandwich in April...