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...that point it's very easy to theorize; you don't have to make up your mind whether death is preferable to a life that offers nothing but mere existence. It's a tragedy that the discussion is governed by people who are not of an age to understand the scope of the problem. Nancy Gibbs will find out for herself when she gets there. Alexander Reiter, KIRCHZARTEN, GERMANY...
...experience proved to be a personal awakening. "It makes you learn a lot about your own culture," she says from a brightly painted office in south New Delhi, "to understand discrimination, to understand equality, to learn how to respect differences." After Gopalan returned to India in 1994 to be closer to her aging parents, she started the Naz Foundation (India) Trust, one of the country's first HIV/AIDS groups. Well before India's economic boom or the push to decriminalize gay sex, the movement helped to introduce issues concerning sexual orientation and sexuality into India's public discourse. "The government...
...tinker with quarks and "high-Z hydrogen-like ions," preferring the rigor of experiments that either worked or didn't to abstract theoretical physics. At Bell Labs, he spent phone-monopoly money playing with electron spectrometers, gamma rays, polymers and other gee-whiz stuff few of us can understand; he once accidentally discovered an important pulse-propagation effect. But even his most obscure technical work had practical applications; his Nobel-winning breakthrough - supercooling atoms into "optical molasses" - inspired improvements in GPS data and oil exploration. "He's a real-world scientist," says physicist Carl Wieman, who won a separate Nobel...
...release, telling CNN on Saturday that he didn't have the power to arrange Megrahi's release. "I wasn't in a position to say so-and-so should be released. That's not the way the British system works. And the release of Mr. Megrahi, as I understand it, has been done by the Scottish Executive which, obviously, not only myself, but my successor, has no influence over." (Read: "Terrorism Solving the Lockerbie Case...
...think this is a tremendous opportunity for me to both listen, and hopefully in a humble way, to share some experience and perhaps a little learned wisdom that I may have to offer," said Coleman, who emphasized his desire to better understand "how we can improve the political process," particularly through the use of modern communications technology and social networking tools. "How do you reach out to young people? My party has not done a good job of that...