| Topic: |
Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
02 Jan 2007 06:26:44 AM |
| Object: |
Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't |
Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/science/02free.html?pagewanted=3Dall
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Experiments suggest that the conscious choice is an illusion, but some
philosophers and physicists choose to disagree.
Mr. Wolfowitz and the Bank
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/opinion/02tue1.html
Why do so many people at the World Bank mistrust Paul Wolfowitz -
including many of the leading shareholders?
Editorial Observer: 100 Years Later, the Food Industry Is Still 'The
Jungle'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/opinion/02tue4.html
By ADAM COHEN
Upton Sinclair's book awakened a nation not just to the dangers in the
food supply, but to the central role government has to play in keeping
it safe.
A Past That Makes Us Squirm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/opinion/02childs.html
By CRAIG CHILDS
If the film "Apocalypto" has a fault, it is not with its brutality, but
with us in the audience who think the Mayans little more than a
barbaric people.
Middle-Class French Join Sleep-In Over Homelessness
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/europe/02paris.html?ref=3Dworld
By CRAIG S. SMITH
France's homeless problem is relatively mild - roughly 86,000 are
homeless on any given night - but even that number is too high for
the socially active in France.
After 15 Years, Someone's in Charge in Somalia, if Barely
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/africa/02somalia.html?ref=3Dworld
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
After Somalia's Islamist forces abandoned their final outpost on
Monday, the country's transitional government moved aggressively to
assert control.
West Tries a New Tack to Block Iran's Nuclear Agenda
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/middleeast/02sanctions.html?ref=3Dw=
orld&pagewanted=3Dall
By HELENE COOPER and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
The U.S. and Europe want to use a U.N. resolution on Iran's nuclear
plans to persuade governments and banks to cut ties with the country.
Thai Leaders Suspect Supporters of Ousted Premier in Bombings
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/asia/02thai.html?ref=3Dworld
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thailand's military-backed government said it suspects supporters of
Thaksin Shinawatra of carrying out the bombings that killed 3 and
wounded 38 on Sunday.
Angry Protests in Iraq Suggest Sunni Arab Shift to Militants
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/world/middleeast/02Iraq.html?ref=3Dmiddle=
east
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Enraged crowds protested the hanging of Saddam Hussein across Iraq's
Sunni heartland on Monday, and the demonstrations appeared to be
building.
Power Shift in Congress Revives Health Debate
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/washington/02health.html?ref=3Dus&pagewan=
ted=3Dall
By ROBERT PEAR
House Democrats will try to rush legislation forcing the government to
negotiate drug prices for Medicare beneficiaries and overturning the
restrictions on stem cell research.
As New Congress Nears, House Democrats Could Be Headed for Own Divide
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/us/politics/02generations.html?ref=3Dus&p=
agewanted=3Dall
By CARL HULSE
Members of the new Democratic majority have their own differing
perspectives, corresponding largely to length of service, that could
ultimately prove more crucial to their success or failure.
Using Web Cams but Few Inhibitions, the Young Turn to Risky Social
Sites
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/technology/02net.html?ref=3Dbusiness&page=
wanted=3Dall
By BRAD STONE
While sites like YouTube and Myspace crack down on nudity and violence,
new sites are treading into the realm of unfiltered live broadcasts.
A Road Through History, Paved in Spanish Tile
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/arts/design/02tile.html?ref=3Darts
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
Islamic, Christian and modernist influences all come together in this
show at the Queen Sof=EDa Spanish Institute in Manhattan.
The New Crowd's First Test
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR200701010=
0696.html
Are Hill Democrats Serious on Ethics?
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; Page A17
This time it's going to be different.
Whenever a new crowd displaces an old guard, the promise is always the
same. The fresh managers swear they understand what the tired bunch
they're replacing did wrong and vow to make all things new.
A Scaffold's Dark Portrait of Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR200701010=
0697.html
By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; Page A17
Since history is written by those who rule, the annals of the
U=2ES.-supported Iraqi government record that the deposed dictator Saddam
Hussein was given a fair trial, sentenced to death for the mass murder
of innocent Shiite civilians and duly executed by hanging on Dec. 30,
2006, in accordance with Iraqi law. A tragic era was brought to an end,
according to the official history, opening the way for a brighter
tomorrow.
But the dark, remorseless, unflinching cellphone video of the execution
that quickly surfaced on the Internet tells an alternate history, one
that is neither tidy nor hopeful -- and that demonstrates, not just by
its content but by its very existence, that forces other than the
current beleaguered government intend to be the final authors of Iraqi
history. That's because they intend to be the ones in charge.
Island Of Injustice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR200701010=
0698.html
The U.S. Has a Moral Duty To the People of Diego Garcia
By David Vine
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; Page A17
Forty years ago, on Dec. 30, 1966, at the U.S. Embassy in London,
representatives of the U.S. and British governments met, as one
participant later put it, "under the cover of darkness" to sign an
"exchange of notes" giving the United States the right to create what
was to become a major military base on Diego Garcia, an obscure British
island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. In doing so they made
provision for "those administrative measures" necessary to forcibly
deport the entire native population of the island and the surrounding
Chagos Archipelago.
While Diego Garcia has gained some attention as a key launch pad for
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, few know about the expulsion of
nearly 2,000 people, called Chagossians, that was eventually carried
out between 1968 and 1973 to create the base.
Democrats To Start Without GOP Input
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR200701010=
0784_pf.html
Quick Passage of First Bills Sought
By Lyndsey Layton and Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A01
As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to
campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are
planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of
lawmaking.
House Democrats intend to pass a raft of popular measures as part of
their well-publicized plan for the first 100 hours. They include
tightening ethics rules for lawmakers, raising the minimum wage,
allowing more research on stem cells and cutting interest rates on
student loans.
For Iraq's Shiites, a Dream Deferred Breeds Mistrust of U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR200701010=
0912_pf.html
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A01
BAGHDAD -- As a dull winter sun nibbled away at the chilly morning,
Hussein Lefta stood beside the Rahman Mosque. Before him, Shiite Muslim
worshipers passed through an emerald green gate and shuffled across a
stone-covered field. Behind him the giant gray shrine rose above
Mansour, a mainly Sunni Arab neighborhood that was once home to the
elite of the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Built to proclaim Hussein's glory, the mosque is one of the most
visible symbols of his fall. Thousands of oppressed Shiites took
control of the unfinished building following the U.S.-led invasion. On
that day in April 2003, Shiites say, their history was reshaped, their
politics reborn and their faith reinvigorated .
Somali Islamic Fighters Flee Toward Kenya
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR200701010=
0293_pf.html
Government Gains Control of Last Stronghold; Embassy Bombing Suspects
Pursued
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A10
NAIROBI, Jan. 1 -- Ethiopian forces backing Somalia's weak transitional
government have taken over Kismaayo, the last stronghold of the
country's Islamic movement, and on Monday were chasing the remnants of
the Islamic militia along the Indian Ocean coast toward the Kenyan
border about 100 miles to the south.
In the final stage of a dramatic power shift in the fragile Horn of
Africa nation, the Islamic fighters abandoned their heaviest weapons
early Monday morning and took off for villages in the forest, with
Ethiopian and government troops in hot pursuit of key leaders,
including three suspects in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania.
Bangkok with a whimper
Tim Footman
January 2, 2007 10:42 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/tim_footman/2007/01/bangkok_with_a_whim=
per.html
P calls.
"Are you OK?" he says. "I've just heard on the radio - about six bombs
have gone off in Bangkok. But I can't get on to the internet. Do you
know anything?"
As the World Learns
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16406715/site/newsweek/
Leaders from around the globe offer a wide spectrum of responses to the
news that Saddam Hussein has been hanged.
Web Exclusive
Newsweek
Updated: 12:33 p.m. ET Dec. 30, 2006
Dec. 30, 2006 - "Saddam Hussein's execution comes at the end of a
difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops. Bringing Saddam
Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an
important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy that can
govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the war on
terror." President George W. Bush
Norwegian Gold
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16408290/site/newsweek/
The Barents sea could become Europe's natural-gas Klondike-and an
alternative to Russia.
By William Underhill
Newsweek International
Jan. 8, 2007 issue - In the new age of energy scarcity, geography
shapes politics. That's why Jonas Gahr Store travels with his own maps.
Not for Norway's foreign minister the standard picture of a Europe
centered on the Alps and the warm south. When starting talks with his
European counterparts, Store likes to place on the table a very
different map. At its center: the northernmost tip of the Scandinavian
peninsula and the chilly waters of the Barents Sea high above the
Arctic Circle. His message is simple. This is the geopolitical world as
Norwegians see it.
The New Generation
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16399607/site/newsweek/
A 'second wave' of entrepreneurial firms is poised to drive the
economy. And they aren't in the outsourcing sector.
By Ron Moreau and Sudip Mazumdar
Newsweek International
Jan. 8, 2007 issue - India's rise as an economic power is known the
world over, thanks largely to the global ambitions of its biggest
corporations. But names like Infosys, Tata and Reliance aren't
necessarily as important to India's future as modest firms like Acme
Tele Power Ltd. It sounds a bit like a store you might find on Main
Street in Peoria, but one look at the numbers belies this association.
Acme has a profit margin of 33 percent on 2006 revenues of $300
million, which have risen more than 3,000 percent in four years. Acme
makes energy-efficient sheds that protect cell-phone relay stations,
but its 32-year-old founder Manoj Upadhyay is plowing most of that
profit into R D, and files for a new patent about once a month. "He is
poised to grow exponentially," says Sandeep Ghosh, director of
commercial banking for Citigroup India. "If only one of Upadhyay's new
ideas comes off, it's going to be fabulous."
Running Out of Time
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16399604/site/newsweek/
South Korea's protectionist instincts are complicating trade
negotiations between Seoul and Washington.
By B.J. Lee
Newsweek International
Jan. 8, 2007 issue - When South Korea reopened its lucrative beef
market to the United States in late October, ending a nearly three-year
ban stemming from the outbreak of mad-cow disease, American beef
exporters were upbeat. After all, beef sells for three times more in
Korea than it does in the United States. Their joy was brief. Korean
quarantine inspectors sent back the first three shipments on the
grounds that they were in violation of an agreement restricting imports
only to U.S. beef that is free of bones. After a painstaking search of
the 22,000-kilogram shipment, the inspectors unearthed 11 pieces of
bone, each smaller than a bean.
Let the Good Times Roll
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16399609/site/newsweek/
By Jeffrey E. Garten
Newsweek International
Jan. 8, 2007 issue - Ten years ago, when the "big bang" hit London, a
burst of deregulation reversed years of stagnation in the markets and
propelled the City to become one of the world's biggest and most
vibrant financial centers. When we look back on 2007, there is a good
chance that it will be remembered as the year of the global big bang,
ushering in a new boom in financial deals from mergers to buyouts to
IPOs, in unprecedented numbers and scale, with a quantum expansion of
deals across national borders. Whether this phenomenon lasts or whether
it ends in a collapsing financial universe-well, that's another
question.
The New Middle East
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16408291/site/newsweek/
As the Iraq war helps bring the American era to a close, a new order
will begin to emerge in the region.
By Richard N. Haass
Newsweek International
Jan. 8, 2007 issues - It is early 2008.
The new U.S. strategy for Iraq, outlined by President George W. Bush in
January 2007, in the wake of the Iraq Study Group report, has come and
gone with no discernible effect.
Contrition as Leadership
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16399598/site/newsweek/
Smarter today than yesterday. That's true of the American people on
Iraq. It would be good to learn that it's true of their leader as well.
By Anna Quindlen
Newsweek
Jan. 8, 2007 issue - When word circulated that the president would make
a speech to the nation on Iraq in the new year, there was speculation
about what he would say. Some suspected he would just repeat
boilerplate sentiments about bringing freedom to Iraqis and making
America safe from terrorism. Others thought that his remarks would
address a new direction, perhaps a significant increase in the number
of troops.
.
|
|
|
Related Articles |
|
|
