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...best known for his barn-burning 2004 attack on religion, The End of Faith, which spent 33 weeks on the New York Times best-seller List. The book's sequel, Letter to a Christian Nation also came out in editions totalling hundreds of thousands. Last Monday, however, the combative Californian produced a shorter (seven pages) and seemingly calmer publication that will be a hit if it reaches 10,000 readers: "Functional Neuroimaging of Belief, Disbelief and Uncertainty." It appears in the respected journal Annals of Neurology. And Harris, 40, claims it has little if any connection to his two popular...
...streets of Cambridge, covering the Yard in a layer of white, freshmen and upperclassmen alike bundled up in scarves, gloves, and puffy jackets. “It’s not just a legend—white stuff really does fall from the sky,” said Californian Christina M. Velez ’11. Eeke L. de Milliano ’11, a Netherlands native and veteran of blizzards, welcomed the first flakes with a snowball fight early yesterday morning. “We were screaming and running around,” she said...
...Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily Californian, several students at UC-Berkeley have been living in an oak grove since Dec. 2 to prevent the construction of an athletic center and the subsequent felling of 26 trees. Last Sunday, one of the protestors, Nathaniel Hill, 24, injured himself falling from one of the trees while trying...
...staying power of SIA, it's worth thinking back to those wines that were chosen late last year, including a 1999 Chateau Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande, a Bordeaux that retails for upwards of $130, and a 1998 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Fay Vineyard Cabernet, an $85 Californian. Neither of them will be served on SIA's new U.S. flights this year. Instead, they will be cellared until 2005 or 2006, when they will have developed the right character for drinking. --With reporting by Douglas Wong/Singapore
...Crimson, which ranked next to last in the league last season in three-point field goals made and three-point field goal percentage.Harvard’s long-range shooting should improve even more with the addition of McNally, who can play both guard positions. rivals.com says the Californian picked Harvard over more established basketball programs like Penn, Stanford, and Gonzaga. ESPN.com ranks him as the 103rd-best shooting guard in the class of 2008.“It’s showing a new commitment, not only by him but by the school and the athletics...