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Bloomberg.com: U.K.

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:05:55 -0000

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July 20 (Bloomberg) -- A U.K. children's charity has brought in extra staff to man its phone lines in expectation of a deluge of calls from distraught youngsters if Harry Potter dies.

``Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,'' the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling's series of adventures about the boy wizard and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, goes on sale tomorrow.

``For many children, Harry Potter and his friends have become a major part of their childhood,'' said Kate Trench, a spokeswoman for ChildLine, based in London, which provides telephone support services for children. ``Excitement could give way to sadness for those caught up in the huge build-up to the seventh and final book.''

Speculation about the book's ending has been rife after Rowling admitted two characters perish, with many predicting that Harry himself will die. The New York Times, which said it bought a copy of the book this week in New York, described the ending as ``a big screen, bone-chilling confrontation,'' providing ``an epilogue that clearly lays out people's fates.''

The charity deals with reactions to the fate of fictional and real people alike, according to Trench. ``When boy band Take That split up, hundreds of distraught children contacted ChildLine,'' Trench said in a statement today. ``Last year we spoke to more than 6,000 children about bereavement, and many more may call this year in relation to death of characters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.''

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globeandmail.com: Canadian team makes stem cell breakthrough

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:33:15 -0000

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TORONTO — A team of Canadian scientists has made a discovery about how human embryonic stem cells develop that could change the direction of research into what has been dubbed the Holy Grail of regenerative medicine.

Embryonic stem (ES) cells give rise to every tissue in the body — from the liver and heart to the bones and brain. Scientists around the world are working to understand how they might be harnessed to cure a wide variety of diseases, from growing a whole new organ to replacing brain cells damaged by Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

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Quantum Physics: David Bohm. Bohmian Wave Mechanics, David Bohm Biography

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:38:30 -0000

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It is proposed that the widespread and pervasive distinctions between people (race, nation, family, profession, etc., etc.) which are now preventing mankind from working together for the common good, and indeed, even for survival, have one of the key factors of their origin in a kind of thought that treats things as inherently divided, disconnected, and "broken up" into yet smaller constituent parts. Each part is considered to be essentially independent and self-existent.
(David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order)

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The Holographic Universe - Crystalinks

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:16:43 -0000

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The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts.

A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.

This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.

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Evolution and Religion - Darwin’s God - Robin Marantz Henig - New York Times

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:50:03 -0000

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Call it God; call it superstition; call it, as Atran does, “belief in hope beyond reason” — whatever you call it, there seems an inherent human drive to believe in something transcendent, unfathomable and otherworldly, something beyond the reach or understanding of science.

But it was not clear to him what evolutionary problems might have been solved by religious belief. Religion seemed to use up physical and mental resources without an obvious benefit for survival.

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liminal being: Information from Answers.com

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:22:58 -0000

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