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The Cloning Quandary

The debate surrounding what constitutes a “life” is sure to intensify as the issue of cloning enters the discussion. As a technology in its infancy, there will no doubt be unintended consequences,…

Magenta, town, Italy

(Encyclopedia) MagentaMagentamäjānˈtä [key], town (1991 pop. 23,667), Lombardy, N Italy, near Milan. Manufactures include matches, textiles, and machinery. At the Ticino River nearby, the French and…

Joseph and Asenath

(Encyclopedia) Joseph and Asenath, an early Jewish work, highly regarded in Eastern and Western Christian traditions, most likely emanating from Alexandrian Egypt between 200 b.c. and a.d. 200,…

self-fulfilling prophecy

(Encyclopedia) self-fulfilling prophecy, a concept developed by Robert K. Merton to explain how a belief or expectation, whether correct or not, affects the outcome of a situation or the way a person…

Y2K Survivalists

// Cite Should you be stockpiling canned food? by Gerry Brown The survivalist mentality in Diego Rivera's Portrait of America (1934). Related Links Y2K Panic Millennium Central…

Harry Potter Banned?

Why do some parents want to ban the world's favorite wizard? by Shmuel Ross Related Links Banned Books The Harry Potter Companion Harry Potter Timeline Ever since becoming…

The Koran/Sura XLVI — Al Ahkaf

Sura XLVI — Al Ahkaf Mecca — 35 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful HA. MIM.[795] The Revelation (sending down) of this Book is from the Mighty, the Wise! We have…

Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

by Frederick Douglass A very limited statement of the argument for impartial suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would require more space than can be reasonably…

Book Six

Book Six   The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to…