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...dream for America. It might be the day he sat scribbling in a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., challenging the moderates of white America to stop offering sympathy and start offering real change. Or maybe it's the day a bullet took him down and made the country wonder if it could ever fulfill his promise of a better future...
...absence of positive evidence to the contrary, most scientists reply that the universe must be nothing more than a lucky accident. After all, if it had been different, humans would not be here to wonder how well-suited it is for us. Thus, the “God of physics” can do little to make religious belief any more relevant to scientists. It does not help or hinder the scientific enterprise, and does not affect the way we live our lives. This view of the Deity is therefore quite irrelevant to science...
...Africa, where music is more than just a soundtrack to people's lives, they still matter. "When I sing, I am raising the Zimbabwean flag," says Mtukudzi. If Mugabe, nature and circumstance have brought the nation to its knees, then these patriots are singing "Stand up!" You have to wonder whether Mapfumo and Mtukudzi are experiencing déj? vu. Both rose to prominence in the Harare township of Highfields in the 1970s, during the country's final push for freedom. "In those days, blacks couldn't go into town after dark," recalls Charles Tavengwa, proprietor of the Mushandira Pamwe...
...Mtukudzi's thoughtful Kucheneka ("Emulate those who are brave, those who went before you") remind the powerful and the powerless of the possibility of change. "The music is so important to the people," says Mapfumo. "Let's just keep our fingers crossed that it will work." Some people may wonder why it hasn't already, but then the liberation war took years. "We are a patient people," says Jacob, a clerk from Mutare. "Sometimes too patient." "People are getting the messages through this music," says Chipo, a Bulawayo student. "We know they are singing from the heart. In time...
...Still, the Santillan tragedy will prompt transplant patients and their families to wonder, now more than ever, how they can guard against potentially fatal medical errors. As any patient knows, it's bad enough going into the hospital; the last thing you want to worry about is doctors or support staff making a disastrous mistake. John Schochor, an attorney in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. who specializes in medical malpractice cases, offers this advice, not only to transplant patients, but to anyone entering a hospital for an invasive procedure...