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...scientists who choose to work on problems that they know are “amenable to a mathematical treatment.” While this may be accurate, it is a frustrating and unexpected end that contradicts much of what Livio argues for in the earlier sections of his book...
...unrecognized, particularly in closed communities." Former Christian Scientist Rita Swan, executive director of the nonprofit Children's Health Care Is A Legal Duty, estimates that since the 1980s 300 children have died of "religion-based medical neglect" in the United States. Shawn F. Peters, author of the 2007 book When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law calls the situation an unfolding tragedy. "Americans treasure religious liberty and it's one of our bedrock freedoms," says Peters. "Most of us realize that there have to be some limits to such freedoms...
...pollution. If the fumes give you a headache, you can take a cab to the "golden ghetto" of Makati - the city's CBD of stockjobbers and starched luxury malls - and be haunted by the thought of Antonio Samson's slum-dwelling illegitimate son Pepe. He features in Mass, the book that ends José's impassioned saga. In the novel's closing pages, Pepe confronts plutocrat Juan Puneta at his Makati mansion. After hearing Puneta say "I love exploiting the poor," Pepe kills him in an act of class rage and flees this town of heartbreaking contrasts, convinced...
French Socialist Ségolène Royal scored high enough marks as a presidential candidate in 2007 to finish second in the race, with 17 million votes. These days, her grades - and her ability to get on with her political colleagues - have slipped. In a new book set for publication Feb. 5, Royal not only belittles her victorious rival, President Nicolas Sarkozy, as a greedy, vain, amoral "little boy happy to be surrounded by his toys," she also takes swipes with similar venom at fellow Socialist Party heavyweights. Oddly enough, Royal appears to hope that the book's belligerent...
...collection of interviews, titled Femme Debout (Standing Woman), is expected to fly off bookshelves when it hits stores Thursday. As the title suggests, the book seeks to dispel any suspicion that a series of setbacks Royal has suffered since her May 2007 loss to Sarkozy has weakened in any way her bid for another run in 2012. In addition to the jabs at those she feels are conspiring to block her path, Royal also punctuates the book's pages with the boundless self-confidence that has proven both an asset and a liability to her over time. (See pictures...