Each invention and new research into technological possibilities has its own story and we can now add to the best of them the latest and probably most compelling one of our time It is told in the book The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner a history of the Bell Telephone Laboratories mdash or Bell Labs
From Jill Lepore, historical excavations of our political traditions
Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a masterpiece of ambiguity.
The city suffocates with the smellOf hemp, soaked in blood, everywhere.Hour after hour after hour she tossesFrom one nightmare to another.Her bed sheets, once silveredWith the scent of nard, taste of gall.She dreams she sees her husband, the prefectOf equivocation, leaning over the porticoTrying to
Lent is a time to prepare for spiritual transformation whether this will be signified by the sacraments of initiation at the Easter Vigil or by other rites and signs of conversion But in order to prepare for transformation one must turn back to God This is not easy and those who have turned back
Paying attention to the “Jesus of history” and the “Christ of faith.”
The pro-life movement must carefully assess the social and political realities it faces.