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...Xinjiang separatists have carried out small bombings in the region and in Beijing in the 1990s, but analysts say the groups responsible appeared to have been wiped out, making it hard to know what to make of Beijing's current claims, which single out two groups in particular: the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, which are also blamed by authorities for the trouble in Khotan. "It's very hard to know what to believe," says Dru Gladney, a Xinjiang specialist at Pomona College in California. "It's been very noticeable that Uighur leaders have...
...Engineering T. Kyle Vanderlick, who joined Yale at the beginning of the calendar year as the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. “Engineering is more than a collection of individual departments,” Vanderlick said. She compared specialization in engineering to chosing a particular field of study in medical school. “There are subdisciplines within medicine but they have a common purpose, a common mission, a common language, and a like-mindedness,” Vanderlick said. “And that’s also true in engineering...
...that none of the established concentrations offered by the College fit his interdisciplinary interests. So, after a grueling application process, Rice became one of the 21 undergraduates pursuing degrees through the Department of Special Concentrations this year. Established in 1971, the Department of Special Concentrations enables students with a particular passion to combine various fields of study without joint concentrating. But in the Harvard system, one concentration isn’t necessarily easier than two: with little support or guidance from the College, students seeking an individualized concentration must go through intense administrative rigmarole to tailor-make a degree. This...
...dropping of this other shoe makes the Pope seem more consistent, since there is much he clearly dislikes about American materialism and pop culture. Today he explained that "perhaps," after all, America's brand of secularism "poses a particular problem: it allows for professing belief in God... but at the same time it can subtly reduce religious belief to a lowest common denominator. Faith can become a passive acceptance... without practical relevance for everyday life. The result is a growing separation of faith from life." Combined with what he called our "individualistic and eclectic approach to faith," he said this...
...continued: "The Church in America, at this point in her history, is faced with the challenge of recapturing the Catholic vision of reality and presenting it in an engaging and imaginative way, to a society which markets any number of recipes for human fulfillment." Said he: "I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth." Key to all this is prayer itself, which can even address the nagging vocations shortage in America by allowing...