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Abraham Verghese (1955–) is the Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.[1]. He was born in Ethiopia to parents from Kerala in south India [2] who, along with hundreds of Keralites, worked as teachers. He is a Syro-Malabar Orthodox Christian,[3] Verghese, his father’s Christian name, being Malayalam for George and a very common Suriyani name. In February 2009, Knopf will publish his new book and first novel, Cutting for Stone.[4]
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Launching squeak (etoys, scratch) on Ubuntu
> To: peace_the_dreamer@yahoo.com, “The general-purpose Squeak developers list” <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 2:14 AM
> Jerome Peace wrote:
> >
> > So how do we get Aladdin his lamp in the case of
> Ubuntu?
>
> There are three mostly separate forks of *.deb packages.
> - the one maintained by originally by Lex and then by me
> and available from squeak.org
> - one maintained by Jos available now from official
> Debian repositories
> - one maintained by Ubuntu MOTU developers.
> (ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com)
>
> In case of Ubuntu, try to ask:
> Jordan Mantha
> mantha@ubuntu.com
> Also, there are official ways how to file bug reports to
> Ubuntu packages.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/etoys
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/squeak
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By Robert S. Boyd, McClatchy Newspapers Robert S. Boyd, Mcclatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — We’re not finished yet. Even today, scientists say that human beings are continuing to evolve as our genes respond to rapid changes in the world around us.
In fact, the pressures of modern life may be speeding up the pace of human evolution, some anthropologists think.
Their view contradicts the widespread 20th-century assumption that
modern medical practice, antibiotics, better diet and other advances
would protect people from the perils and stresses that drive
evolutionary change.
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In their new book, “God Is Back,” John Micklethwait, editor in chief of The Economist, and Adrian Wooldridge, that magazine’s Washington bureau chief, argue that religion is “returning to public life” around the world, that “the great forces of modernity — technology and democracy, choice and freedom — are all strengthening religion rather than undermining it,” that these days “religion is playing a much more important role in public and intellectual life.” They assert that “religion is becoming a matter of choice,” something that individuals themselves decide to believe in instead of something imposed upon them, and that “the surge of religion is being driven by the same two things that have driven the success of market capitalism: competition and choice
One of the problems with “The Right Nation” was that the authors selected information and examples that supported their thesis, while ignoring or diminishing data that contradicted it, and they employ a similarly flawed methodology in “God Is Back.”
In arguing that “religion’s power” has “continued to increase,” they contradict considerable evidence to the contrary. (The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey, released this month, found that “the U.S. population continues to show signs of becoming less religious, with one out of every five Americans failing to indicate a religious identity in 2008.”) In arguing that modernity and religion are compatible, Mr. Wooldridge and Mr. Micklethwait play down that Osama bin Laden and other radical jihadis embrace highly puritanical, backward-looking forms of Islam that stand in direct opposition to much of modernity. (The authors also fail to grapple with the anti-progressive impulses of Christian and Jewish fundamentalism.) And in arguing that religion is increasingly a matter of choice, they ignore the plight of people (like women under Taliban rule) who are forced to live by strict religious codes they themselves may not believe in.
from New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/books/31kaku.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
