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...trial of Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes.“Intelligent design had its heyday in the 19th century when natural science was first introduced into colleges in the pre-Civil War era,” Edwards says. “The intelligent design movement now is just a variant on the creationism debates.”Edwards says a bizarre twist of fate caused an alliance between science and religion. He adds that when the natural sciences weren’t taught in American colleges, some scientists justified their discipline by saying it provided evidence of the existence...
...search the fields for bits of vegetables and small game, with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins are the reason that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics - still common in Spain - where whole families will gather for an outdoor cook-off, harking back to a time when communal meals were taken...
...search the fields for bits of vegetables and small game, with all of it ending up in the flat-bottomed pans that are still used to make paella today. These peasant origins are the reason that true paella can contain everything from snails to rabbit (the chicken-and-seafood variant is a latter-day affectation that brings a concerned frown to the face of many Valencians). Paella's humble beginnings are also honored in paella picnics-still common in Spain-where whole families will gather for an outdoor cook-off, harking back to a time when communal meals were taken...
...Students use it to refer to people who have requested it as their pronoun,” Zach Strassburger, a member of the Weseleyan Trans/Gender Group, wrote in an e-mail. “They are mostly but not entirely students who identify as trans or gender-variant in some way.” The term first gained widespread recognition this fall, when the Trans/Gender Group sent each professor information packets about using the gender-neutral pronoun. “Some Wesleyan professors are comfortable with the term; others are not,” Strassburger wrote...
...president of McDonald's Europe, is just what the company--whose sales dipped 1.4% in May--may need. Hennequin, who started by managing a Parisian outlet, is already offering Evian and pastries at the French McDos and tweaking standard fare with Greek Macs and a "dollar menu" variant in Germany. Next up: develop McDonald's in Russia, launch sandwiches and remodel British restaurants this fall--perhaps even offer a "meat and chocolate" dish in Romania. No stranger to the short-order line, Hennequin might just flip the burger market...