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...Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...Cardinal and theologian John Henry Newman called the "development of doctrine"--the process, infuriating to traditional Protestants, whereby Catholic Popes and bishops continued promulgating articles of Christian faith long after the last biblical word was written. Mary is a prime example: her scant treatment in the Gospels left a vacuum that the church, often preceded and probably influenced by popular belief, has been gradually filling over the centuries. The Vatican's 1854 announcement as doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception, followed in 1950 by her bodily Assumption into heaven, infuriated many Protestants. Some historians read them primarily as papal defiance...
These gaps, while significant and frustrating, are small concerns when compared to the vacuum created by the shuttle and Evening Van's early end times. The last shuttle from Johnston Gate to Currier House runs at 12:35 a.m. on weekdays and 1:47 a.m. on weekends; the last from the Science Center to Mather House runs at 12:38 a.m. on both weekends and weekdays. This is simply not acceptable for students whose study habits or extracurricular obligations keep them out later than this. In addition, students can only call the Evening Shuttle Van Service (5-0400) until...
...gossip abhors a vacuum. After weeks of investigation, the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board still cannot say for certain whether Flight 800 was brought down by a bomb, a missile or a mechanical malfunction. In the absence of a conclusive explanation, the Internet has whipped facts, factoids and un-facts into a froth of conspiracy theory. In a piece published in the Nov. 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine, authors Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen trace the strange progress of the friendly fire theory across the Net. One variant: the bombing was a hit. Henry Kissinger...
...Physics 11 page has video demonstrations of concepts ranging from how a vacuum affects free fall to what happens when a TF is placed between two beds of nails with a cinder block...