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...Linenthal, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin and the author of a forthcoming book on the Oklahoma City Memorial, says that with the advent of the new memorials, "the memory of the event will be as transforming as the event itself and as humanizing as the event was dehumanizing." In the case of Oklahoma City, one of the memorial's purposes is "to teach us to be the antithesis of what is portrayed." Similarly, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (on which Oklahoma City is modeled), the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the American Immigrant Wall...
...advent of Jesus Week and the organization of several different Christian groups for a common purpose made me realize the growing presence of religion at Harvard. Coming from the Bible Belt, I was not only raised in a very religious environment (Southern Baptist), but also raised as a very religious person (Hindu). In Augusta, Ga., everyone went to their designated church/temple/mosque on Sundays for some "ol' fashioned religion." While I was aware of certain other faiths, there were only two religions that really mattered: "mine" and "theirs." By the end of high school, I was accustomed to people occasionally looking...
...only is e-mail itself unlovely and somewhat ignoble, its advent tolls the loss of infinite opportunities for heroic deeds. "Don't kill the messenger," goes the saying, but today such advice is unnecessary because, for the most part, there are no messengers. If the Greeks had e-mail, Boston would not have its marathon. Likewise, the strong-souled stoicism of our present day couriers, who "come rain or snow or sleet or hail," is becoming obsolete, only to be replaced with a decidedly unheroic form of communication. The midnight e-mail of Paul Revere is not the stuff...
Though environmentalists are raising loud alarms about the dangers of a genetically modified "super salmon," continued overfishing and increasing demand for cheap protein sources probably mean its advent is inevitable. An American firm is reported to have developed genetically modified (GM) salmon that grows 10 times faster than normal farm-raised varieties, according to a BBC report, a development that could cut the cost of raising salmon by more than half...
...With the advent of cooking, the article argues, human beings moved from a " hunter/gatherer" existence to a "producer/scrounger" social structure...