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While catching up on a recent fable still doesn't mean I've devoured all that's available from Ursula Le Guin's genial and fertile mind, it's reason enough to send a trans-Atlantic smacker 30 years into an old friendship.
Can "a simple calculation" prove God's existence? Well, yes and no.
While no political treatise, the monumental novel published by Kim Stanley Robinson last year offers many rich insights into today's world — by taking Europe and the United States right out of the picture in a drama spanning seven centuries.
For all our Pagan and Wiccan friends, wishes for a wondrous Samhain. For the rest, a look into the inspiration for Halloween.
The Pope has started telling people in African countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which the HIV virus can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk.
Did you think the furor over this summer's consecration of the US Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop had subsided? Think again.
Finally, sense comes to Nigeria — Amina Lawal is free. Thanks to a technicality, the Shari'ah Court of Appeal yesterday overturned the sentence of death by stoning for the 31-year-old mother convicted of adultery in March 2002. But a cruel and repressive system of "justice" still rules over parts of the African nation.
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