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...only person more vocal than Kolbe about his hatred of the penny is recent Berkeley biophysics Ph.D. Jeff Gore. Sensing the penny's sudden vulnerability, his group, Citizens for Retiring the Penny (basically also known as Jeff Gore), has been appearing all over news shows and talk radio. Based on a Walgreen's study that says pennies waste two or more seconds on every cash transaction, Gore estimates that we each lose several hours a year, at a cost of $10 billion in productivity. Using that calculation, Gore has lost $50 billion in productivity by talking about the penny...
...America's ongoing and sometimes rancorous discussion about science and God, some stock characters have evolved. There are the vocal proponents of creationism and intelligent design who storm school boards in hopes that either science or local government will conform to their beliefs. Then there are academic atheists who claim increasingly aggressively that science is in the process of proving religion a delusion. But few of the polemicists have the authority to preach beyond their own choirs. Most believers don't care to listen to an atheistic scientist calling the idea of God a mythology created to explain what humans...
...Connecticut Senate Democratic primary between Lamont and Lieberman, which will be held on Aug. 8, has become one of the most closely watched campaigns of 2006, as anti-Bush and anti-Iraq war fervor has helped Lamont wage a competitive challenge to Lieberman, who has infuriated Democrats with his vocal defense of President Bush's Iraq policy. But while nationally the race has become a referendum on the state of the Democratic Party, the division between the party's left and right wings and its position on the Iraq War, the debate saw both candidates trying to change the subject...
...Love begins in darkness. Silence. And God said, Let there be sound. "Aaaaah aaaaah." The room is filled with the vocal from "Because," a cappella, with extra pauses between the phrases (a space for listeners to insert their own muted "aaahs"). That tight harmony - ecclesiastical, almost angelic, in its purity - is a reminder of the Beatles' vocal virtuosity: that the moptops were, among many other things, avatars of a barbershop quartet...
...same weekend that UVA's production of The Vagina Monologues opened in February 2005, NeW hosted a lecture by Christina Hoff Sommers, a vocal critic of feminism and author of The War Against Boys. Her lecture, "Sex, Lies and The Vagina Monologues" drew a standing-room only audience and sparked a weeklong debate in the student newspaper...