PASADENA—Albert Einstein spent some of his last years stalking the wide, palm-lined avenues of this sunny town. According to local

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Just months before he died, Harvard professor Stephen J. Gould co-signed a letter with his scientific rival Richard Dawkins. In

Being a Zionist has never been easy. It means having to constantly repeat the obvious without sounding shrill or tedious.

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For most scientists, God is irrelevant. And that is a very good thing. When science and religion intersect, an unseemly

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Rinng! Rinng! It’s shopping period, and the cell phones are back, interrupting lectures, concerts and dinners with their incessant beeps,

In the latest example of resurgent European anti-Semitism, administrators at the University of Paris 6 (which specializes in natural sciences)