For better or worse, part III From Seattle Post Intelligencer On Friday, Chicklet and I traveled to the Eastside (48 + 545) to meet Bus Nerd for lunch. The 48 ride was one of those cool trips where it feels like you know everyone on the bus. We all got to talking--about the sunny weather, the origins of Chicklet's name, and Paulette's blog (about local eating) for the Splendid Table. Just as Chicklet and I had settled in on the bench to await the trusty 545, a rather odd man (there were no obvious outward signs of his oddness, but I have very sensitive...

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Two new electives offered by SCCS middle school From Evening Observer SILVER CREEK The Silver Creek Middle School is providing opportunities for students to broaden their cultural and social experiences with new course electives. January Silver Creek Board of Education meeting, middle school principal Pat Krenzer and seventh-grade Social Studies teacher Ray Graf first presented two new courses which began second semester on Jan. 28 one for an eighth-grade class in Native American culture and the other for a seventh-grade class in social interaction. Therefore,...

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A Portait of Atheism From blgtnjew.livejournal.com/ Last night, I read Sam Harris' book, Letter to a Christian Nation which I very much enjoyed. The book is written like a letter from an atheist to a Christian person, and I love the style. I absolutely loved the book, and my girlfriend is going to read it next (she is a Christian). Think of it this way, which is the way spoken of in the movie, physicists are not offended when their ideas are disproved or challenged.

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What’s your favorite Anthropology conference? From savageminds.org Its probably been a long time coming, but I first noticed it in my corner of the anthropology universe back in 2004 when the UNITE-Here strike dislocated many AAA sub-sections. In addition to all these section meetings, there are also numerous anthropology conferences held outside of the US which many of my colleagues enjoy more than the AAA.

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Another presidential candidate with anthropology in the family From culturematters.wordpress.com Khaldoun ) Ralph Nader has announced that he is again running for president in the United States. So, on the occasion of Ralph Nader's entry into the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and since we've been talking about the anthropology links of another presidential candidate, let me tell you how I first found out who Ralph Nader was. Nader expands Said's "observations that the Moslem world exists for the West, to include the notion that the West also exists for the Islamic world and serves as...

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