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A Pill with a Purpose

A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology, led by S. George Djorgovski, may have glimpsed the dawn of our universe. In Aug. 2001, this team reported that it had spotted the “…

Convention on the Rights of the Child, Part I

Convention on the Rights of the ChildPart IArticle 1For the purposes of the present Convention, a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable…

Our Top 5 Stories for the Week of November 1, 2021

It’s been a busy week, from a historical election day in the US to tragedies all over the world. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top five stories of…

criminology

(Encyclopedia) criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of…

symbol

(Encyclopedia) symbol, sign representing something that has an independent existence. The most important use of symbols is in language. To say so, however, does not solve the perennial philosophical…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Chapter 11

by Oscar Wilde Chapter 10Chapter 12Chapter 11 For years, Dorian Gray could not free himself from the influence of this book. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he never…

Millennium Milestones

The 100 Most Significant Events of the Last Thousand Years Reducing the millennium to a laundry list of highlights cannot pretend to be a definitive or accurate exercise. Note that only…

Sun Tzu on the Art of War: Energy

Tactical Dispositions [1] Weak Points and Strong [1] Energy Sun Tzu said: The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a…