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...technical grounds or simply deny that he made the correct decision,” Hanken said. Professor of Philosophy Edward J. Hall said there is still a chance intelligent design could be taught in science classrooms. “Keep in mind that creationist sentiments have already had widespread and pernicious effects: namely, many high school biology teachers report that they simply avoid the topic of evolution, so as not to provoke controversy,” he said. Hanken said he attributes the American public’s unwillingness to fully accept evolution partly as a result of this circumvention...
...didn’t realize how widespread the problem was until I made the Facebook group and saw how many people joined it,” says Bellow, whose group now boasts 55 members...
...time to re-examine the contradictions and conflicting interpretations of his brief 35-year life. He has been cast in many roles: the infant prodigy paraded around European courts by his father, Leopold; the foulmouthed brat whose letters attest to a fondness for off-color practical jokes. One widespread misconception has him buried in a pauper's grave in Vienna's St. Marx Cemetery. Another unproven legend, given widespread credence thanks to the hit movie Amadeus, depicts him as the victim of his jealous court rival Antonio Salieri. Fervent admirers have argued that he was divinely inspired, but some modern...
...Amidst widespread criticism of its failure to provide security in Haiti, the morale of the 9,000-strong United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH) took another blow Saturday with the death of its Brazilian commander, 58-year-old Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar. The shooting - an unconfirmed suicide according to Haitian news radio reports - occurred early Saturday on the patio of his apartment in the luxurious mountainside Montana Hotel, where many connected with the UN mission have taken up part-time residence...
...Their protest drew almost no coverage in the world of popular blogs. Nevertheless, this doesn’t necessarily represent a problem inherent with blogs. For one, it seems likely it’s a temporary state of affairs: as blogging becomes easier and as technological literacy becomes more widespread, I’d expect that the proportions of bloggers interested in various topics would begin to approach those of the population at large. If there are still problems in coverage thereafter, they’d likely be no worse than the coverage problems inherent in traditional print journalism...