In an effort to rehabilitate its treatment of Galileo Gallilei—and by extension, its own—the Vatican is planning a laudatory treatment of Galileo to mark the 400th anniversary of his telescope.

Good Heavens: Vatican rehabilitating Galileo
AP
VATICAN CITY – Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero.
The Vatican is recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as [...]

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Reading the Rocky Mountain News letters to the editor, I came across this little gem:

Intent of degrading the utility of English
Larry Breeden
… I also find it sardonically amusing that he is helping spread the knowledge of English to other parts of the world while here, in the largest concentration of English-speaking people in the world, [...]

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Defining marriage as “one man and one woman” may seem an appropriate boundary for society to define. But in the process, defining marriage serves to re-define family, or at least re-defining the legal protections available to a family.

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