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...Still, there are those who see too much opportunity to quit the country. At the Sulawesi gold-mine site, Dave Morrison has begun hiring contractors to complete facilities construction. Archipelago hopes to start digging next year. "Everyone is telling the truth from their own aspect," Morrison says of the controversy surrounding the mine. "I'm confident that things will move forward." If Indonesia's leaders did more to reinforce that confidence, perhaps the country's promise, like its gold, won't always seem out of reach...
...simple device, but it shows the power of the Internet to truth-squad misleading ads; with a simple Web search, any consumer can find out if a car manufacturer hyping its fuel-efficient hybrids actually earns the majority of its revenue selling gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs. "We try to make it a little more transparent with the index," says Kim Sheehan, a communications professor at the University of Oregon and a co-founder of the site. "It teaches people to be a little more cautious about the claims they hear...
...complex appearance, the universe is actually ordered, rational and elegant. Every major breakthrough in physics has shown the cosmos to conform to mathematical equations so symmetrical and satisfying they can only be described as beautiful. (Physics have christened two of the particles they will study at CERN as "truth" and "beauty," after a Keats poem that suggests the two are interchangeable...
...surprise us... we have to be ready to detect anything it throws at us," he said. "You can make conjectures, but unless you verify the conjectures, they are metaphysics. That's why many of us haven't minded spending our entire working lives building this experiment." Searching for truth and beauty, in other words, is good work...
...Russia and Georgia are guilty of atrocities. However, Georgia's heavy shelling of South Ossetia, including civilian areas, must preclude it from being seen as a victim. I would expect that type of language from Fox News, but I expect a powerful media outlet like Time to report the truth in an unbiased manner. Chris Pappas, LUBBOCK, TEXAS...