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Sema Ergezen teaches biology to Turkish students interested in teaching science themselves, and she has long struggled with her students' ignorance of, and sometimes hostility to, the notion of evolution.
Forget the fall of the iron curtain: the events of '79 matter more. Having spent much of the summer of that year in Berlin, I have long bitterly regretted that I was not there to join in the party the night the wall came down....
The Pixies are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their Doolittle album by giving away a free live EP. NPR reviews (and excerpts from) Paul Auster's latest novel, Invisible. The Telegraph also reviews the book. The Times...
By DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer MANASSAS, Va. (AP) - Virginia prosecutor Paul Ebert knows how to land the big ones. Muhammad, who with teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo methodically picked off people over three weeks in...
Jessica Leeder Fort Hood, Tex — Globe and Mail Update Published on Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009 6:34PM EST The Canadian military general serving in a top-ranking post at Fort Hood says the mission at hand will propel soldiers at...
Northside 51, Staunton River 26 MONETA -- Burt Torrence strode into the giggling, jostling postgame huddle and shoved the Blue Ridge District trophy into the hands of his waiting team. "You earned this," Torrence said. The...
District Overall x-Franklin County 4 0 8 2 William Fleming 2 1 6 2 George Washington 2 1 5 4 Patrick Henry 0 3 2 7 Halifax County 0 3 1 8 Friday Osbourn Park 13, Franklin County 7 Today Halifax County at Patrick Henry, 2 p.m....
I don't know about you but I need to come up for air from calling Congressmen. Here's a bit of light diversion. I was watching the movie Zulu on TCM a few of weeks ago and it got me to musing about the "edge of civilization"...
RAPPROCHEMENT WITH ARMENIA TO HELP END OCCUPATION OF AZERI LAND - TURKISH OFFICIAL news.az Nov 6 2009 Azerbaijan Turkey is seeking reconciliation with Armenia in order to facilitate the end of Armenia's occupation of...
So I’m reading Margaret Atwood’s ‘Year of the Flood’,– a dystopia that is all too real. If Atwood doesn’t turn me vegetarian, she might at least put me off fast food. ‘Oryx and Crake’ had ‘chickie-nobs’. They looked like...
