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...have been delivered the day before he became Pope. Just hours before entering the Sistine Chapel to help choose John Paul II's successor, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave an impassioned sermon in which he decried the "dictatorship of relativism." The conservative German theologian used the phrase to warn against modernity's creation of a secular ideology "that does not recognize anything as definitive, and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's ego and desires." The "dictatorship of relativism" quote has become a rallying cry for some Roman Catholic conservatives, especially those dismayed by the growing spread of secularism...
...London cabbie's brain, the bit responsible for spatial memory and navigation, actually grows bigger than those of mere humans. And yet, as demonstrated in The Book of Dave, the latest novel by British author Will Self, the Knowledge alone will not save your life. It fails to warn Dave Rudman, the book's cabbie hero, that junk food, booze and pills are not the best fuel for the long, lonely hours of a night shift. Nor can it stem the drip feed of [an error occurred while processing this directive] cynicism that comes with relentlessly crawling over the skin...
...introduce a bill that protects the rights of terrorism suspects, are calling on the White House to make the first move. Republican lawmakers are already divided between those eager to impress security-minded voters back home with a tough new tribunal and others, like Virginia's John Warner, who warn that moving too quickly or too carelessly might lead to another embarrassing showdown with the Supreme Court. It may take months to achieve the harmonic balance between good policy and good campaign agitprop, but any Guantánamo policy that eventually emerges could have greater certainty and legitimacy for having been...
...Such concerns in turn inspired more than 100 lawmakers to write to the CDC to warn about playing politics with what should be purely scientific judgments. "Certain activists and organizations are mounting a campaign to prevent this vaccine from becoming widely available," the letter stated. "They cite the possibility that, by preventing a horrible disease, and more than 3,700 deaths a year, this vaccine could remove an obstacle to teenage sex.... In contrast to the strong scientific evidence supporting the effectiveness of the cervical cancer vaccine, there is no scientific evidence to support the fear that its use will...
...money to erect the memorial, which was completed rather quietly until it was noticed recently by the local papers. Not surprisingly, it has elicited a storm of outrage, so much so that the grand opening set for June 25 was canceled on Thursday after police warned that Junker, and his shrine, could be targeted. Sugar Creek Township Chairman Loren Waite calls Junker ?a mixed-up old man ... I hope he?s just confused.? Jewish and anti-hate groups warn that Nazi sympathizers have been known to populate the heavily German areas of southern and southeastern Wisconsin, and decry Junker...