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...commensurate growth of faith and morals. "The ambiguity of progress becomes evident. Without doubt, it offers new possibilities for good, but it also opens up appalling possibilities for evil - possibilities that formerly did not exist," Benedict writes. "We have all witnessed the way in which progress, in the wrong hands, can become and has indeed become a terrifying progress in evil. If technical progress is not matched by corresponding progress in man's ethical formation, in man's inner growth then it is not progress at all, but a threat for man and for the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For True Progress, We Need Faith | 12/1/2007 | See Source »

Even after his daredevil jumping days were over, his memory lived on in pop culture, and in the lingering scars of formerly impressionable bike-riding boys. In the end, maybe "death-defying" is the wrong term to describe him. All death could do, after all, was make him stop living; in his outlook, fear was the only thing that could truly kill him. That which didn't kill Evel Knievel, as he proved more literally than most, made him stronger. With reporting by Pat Dawson/Butte

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Evel Knievel, 1938-2007 | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...father and accessibility to a black identity--not necessarily a politicized identity but that much simpler and more profound feeling of unselfconsciously belonging to a people. Here was a kid, accountable in the world as a black, being raised by whites--mother, grandmother, and grandfather. Nothing in the world wrong with this. In fact, the fine young man that Obama became has to be credited in large part to the devotion of his extraordinary mother--a woman who, in Indonesia, got her young son up at 4 five days a week to run him through English lessons before his Indonesian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Identity Card | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...Freud was right about some things," Pinker said. "Right or wrong, the theory is so influential that educated students need to know what it says...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Courses Discount Freud's Theories | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...There’s a lot of disenchantment with how the UC has been run. Matt Sundquist has played a large role [in that],” Willey says. “With everything that’s gone wrong in the last year, I think they are more vulnerable than past establishment tickets...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Year of the Underdog? | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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