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Some of the best and brightest left the country. Thomas Mann left, and Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Paul Tillich, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder. Some of the less fortunate fell into the hands of Goring's police and ended up in...
Born in 1928 into a doctor's family, Doi belongs to the country's minuscule but politically active Protestant minority. "Originally, I wanted to be a doctor too," says Doi. "My parents were in favor of the idea that girls should study and try to be independent like men." Eventually...
Without prejudging the York case, many ethicists believe that as a general rule, a couple's primary claim to use of its embryo has a sound basis in law and common sense. "When a physician starts owning embryos and making decisions for his patients," says Marrs, co-founder of Good...
Since well before the Civil War, black Americans have been predominantly Protestant. Despite extensive outreach by the Roman Catholic Church, only 2 million of America's 54 million lay Catholics and 300 of the nation's 19,000 priests are black. Thirteen of 314 active Catholic bishops in the U.S...
Poignantly, these events are occurring just after a meeting of the nation's bishops that endorsed a blueprint for stepped-up evangelism among blacks. A special report to the hierarchy warned that experts are deeply concerned about attrition among black Catholics "leaving the church for Protestant denominations where they will...