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...they quote me for support of such views." And unlike Sigmund Freud or Bertrand Russell or George Bernard Shaw, Einstein never felt the urge to denigrate those who believed in God; instead, he tended to denigrate atheists. "What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos," he explained...
...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report on the state of planetary warming in February that was surprising only in its utter lack of hedging. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the report stated. What's more, there is "very high confidence" that human activities since 1750 have played a significant role by overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide hence retaining solar heat that would otherwise radiate away. The report concludes that while the long-term solution is to reduce the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, for now we're going to have...
...process, but also the Saudi Arabians--the implacable Alpha Arabs--were again holding out the possibility of diplomatic recognition in return for a settlement with the Palestinians (on terms Israel could never accept, but it was a start). So I asked the Prime Minister if he might leverage his utter unpopularity into something positive with a dramatic grand gesture--after all, what did he have to lose? Olmert was skeptical: "Even if [I] have something in mind that might be headlined as dramatic, it will be labeled as spin," he said. But later, when I asked him about the Saudi...
...Penn’s utter dominance of the Ancient Eight will likely be a thing of the past next year. Major losses by the Quakers, as well as the impending return of many stars from the schools striving to take the top spot, will likely make the Ivy League championship chase one of the most open ever. Every team, including Harvard, has at least a decent shot at winning the league and heading to the NCAA tournament...
...door, oblivious to the peanut butter smeared on my face from lunch and muttering to myself about the state of the Red Sox relief pitching, while eating old pretzels directly out of my coat pocket. I also was sporting a beard that, through no other reason but my own utter laziness, had grown to epic proportions...