Holding a Moral Center as Civilization Fell
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This wrenching political thriller lends a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West.
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An ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history.
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As economic forces push them toward a former ruler, they struggle to redefine their identity.
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A controversy over too much skin points to the chasm dividing puritan official morality from the lives of real Chinese.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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societies went to work picking up bits of flesh and bone for burial under Jewish law. &quot;In many cases we prevent heavy disasters.
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UMW professor says people should not expect quick, dramatic change in dynamics following death of longtime leader. As Palestinians mourn the death of their leader, Yasser Arafat, attention is shifting to who
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Time is running out to resolve one of the most critical debates in Western society.
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Imagine the long centuries of the Stone Age, when life was, by definition, hard and there was not a tipple to be had. People in the Middle East came to find a pleasing remedy in the marvel
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Fortunately, it ended as such. The major massacre did not occur, but small ones did. The shrines and the holy places were not destroyed, although some walls were hit.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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It was called Holy City, but it was not exactly a model of Christian piety. It was, rather, a commune and tourist trap created in the 1920s by a white-supremacist huckster.
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It's sad to think that in four short years we have gone from declaring "the world is welcome here" to having the mayor of Salt Lake City effectively telling the president of the United States to "go home." All the goodwill created by being gracious hosts for the Olympics was shattered in one day.
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Two anthropologists are proposing a new explanation for the demise of the Neanderthals that hinges on the fact that they didnÂt divide the labor.
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For many men, loyalty is sacred. Except when it isn't.
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For a growing number of churches, the boundary between sacred space and marketplace is coming down.
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The world looked on helplessly four years ago as Islamic zealots destroyed two enormous standing Buddha statues overlooking Afghanistan's Bamian Valley,  but recent explorations at the ancient site have led researchers to conclude that all may not have been lost. A third, much larger statue -- a 1,000-foot-long sleeping Buddha -- may still be buried nearby.