The New York Review of Books: The Terri Schiavo Case: An Exchange: "As the pathologists who performed the autopsy stated clearly, the diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state is clinical, i.e., based on observation of a living patient, and so cannot be determined by autopsy."

Sometims, it is amazed to how hard for people, very intelligent people in this case, to recognize and accept what they do not want to see.

Even though the point of the autopsy statement is that all the evidences supported the clinical diagnosis, but distinction between clinical and pathological is used to back the bias, and to imply that the right to ignore all the pathological evidences.

Who cares about the LONG run?

China Unpegs Itself - New York Times: "In the long run, the economic effects of an end to China's dollar buying would even out. ... But as John Maynard Keynes pointed out, in the long run we are all dead."

[quote]village voice > books > Wander Woman by Joy Press: "The word lost derives from the old Norse term for 'disbanding an army,' and Solnit fears that 'many people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know.' In Wanderlust she delved into the shrinkage of public space, and here she pursues the idea that children's lack of opportunity to roam freely—'Because of their parents' fear of the monstrous things that might happen (and do happen, but rarely)'—will strip away our culture's sense of adventure and imagination. Wildlife has returned to many American neighborhoods because, '[a]s far as the animals are concerned, the suburbs are an abandoned landscape.'"[/quote]

Getting lost is a luxury!

Leading Cardinal Redefines Church's View on Evolution - New York Times: "Mr. Ryland said the cardinal was well versed on these issues and had written the essay on his own."

The essay is encouraged (or misled), by the supporters of Intelligent Design, who claim that there is a scietific debate about theory of evolution, while there is none.

[quote] Mark Ryland, a vice president of the [Discovery I]nstitute, said in an interview that he had urged the cardinal to write the essay. Both Mr. Ryland and Cardinal Schönborn said that an essay in May in The Times about the compatibility of religion and evolutionary theory by Lawrence M. Krauss, a physicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, suggested to them that it was time to clarify the church's position on evolution.

The cardinal's essay was submitted to The Times by a Virginia public relations firm, Creative Response Concepts, which also represents the Discovery Institute. [/quote]

I would be suprised that if a biologist, even a catholic one, would change his/her view on evolution because of this, but very likely their view on Church may change.