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Everyone who plays golf is something of a closet geek. How else can you explain our (yes, I include myself in this group) obsession with the latest biometric-based designs or the newest high-tech components like polymers and alloys and all the other neat-sounding stuff that clubmakers pack into their new products...
...latest shot is being fired by economist, actor and game-show host Ben Stein, with his documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, due out April 18. Stein nominally set out to make the case that academics who write about evolution are being muzzled or denied tenure if they so much as nod in the direction of intelligent design. It's impossible to know from the handful of examples he cites how widespread the problem is, but if there's anything to it at all, it's a matter well worth exposing...
...domestic dissent. On April 3, prominent human-rights activist Hu Jia received a 3 1/2-year prison sentence on charges of inciting subversion of state power. Hu's conviction, apparently stemming from articles he wrote and interviews he gave linking the Olympics with human rights in China, was the latest in what rights advocates in China say is a string of detentions of activists all over the country. Beijing is also applying pressure on China's huge online population of some 230 million, which is often cited as the country's most powerful force for greater openness. Thousands of websites have...
After 11 years and multiple investigations, the latest verdict by a British jury may be the final word on Princess Diana's death...
...Harvard’s recent run of hard-luck losers, freshman Anthony Nutter was the latest. In his first collegiate start, Nutter held Massachusetts scoreless through the first five innings and allowed three runs over seven-plus innings of work in a 3-0 loss to the Minutemen in the opening round of the Beanpot Tournament at Fraser Field...