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Nobody knows what form these parallel worlds might take, and it's far from clear that we could detect their existence, let alone step through a mirror or a space warp for a visit. But hints that ours is just one of many universes keep cropping up in all sorts of different theories--and in ways that can seem far stranger than fiction...
...With warp speed, Saylor's proposal became the talk of the highest ivory towers. And the reactions were mostly of the unpublishable kind. "Saylor's naivete is breathtaking," says David Noble, a history professor at Toronto's York University and a sharp critic of distance learning. "It's the quintessence of counterfeit education." Adds Carole Fungaroli, an English professor at Georgetown: "It's the same as sex on the Internet. You can get it online, but it's not as good as in person...
Like many of the start-ups it covers, the Standard is living at warp speed. Its offices are crowded with foosball tables and video-game machines. It recently got $30 million in venture capital to expand its empire (new magazines, new websites, new conferences) in return for a 15% stake in the company. It's contemplating an IPO. And on Friday night the line for its weekly rooftop party--already a San Francisco institution--stretches round the corner...
...read the latest headlines about American labor unions, you might think you were in a time warp: membership on the rise, reports of widespread corruption, the Teamsters headed by a guy named Hoffa. A report released by the Labor Department this week shows that unionism is on the rise for the first time in over two decades. The reason is simple enough - just as the nation is experiencing its first labor shortages in decades, workers are in a position to make greater demands. Even tech firms, the Wild West of modern American capitalism, have gone union in recent years, with...
...wife Kasturba. At 16 he left his dying father's side to make love to her. His father died that night, and Gandhi could never forgive himself the "double shame." He neglected and even humiliated Kasturba most of his life and only after her death realized she was "the warp and woof of my life." At 36, convinced that sex was the basis of all impulses that must be mastered if man was to reach Truth, he renounced it. An aspirant to a godly life must observe the Hindu practice of Brahmacharya, or celibacy, as a means of self-control...