A story of shock, chaos and bravery unfolds in Ft. Hood shooting Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 Eyewitnesses say the gunman sat and appeared to pray before calmly firing on his comrades. Officials say he got 100 rounds off before civilian officers brought him down in a firefight.
In the end, the shooting rampage at Ft. Hood came down to a gunfight between two civilian base police officers toting standard sidearms and a 39-year-old psychiatrist armed with .357 Magnum and a pistol equipped with laser sighting and extra bullets, officials said.
American Muslims express fear, frustration after Ft. Hood shootings Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 The news that the suspect is one of their own brings up familiar feelings. Besides fears of retribution, they're tired of sensing pressure to apologize for someone else's 'maniacal brutality.'
The news made Nihad Awad sick to his stomach.
Messages from the past become easy to read Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 USC researchers are producing crisp images of inscriptions and artifacts from biblical Israel and other Near Eastern locales and putting the pictures online.
Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down a tally of slave laborers on a clay tablet.
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November 6, 2009: The Church and the Fall of the Wall fred yi Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:12:13 -0000 "If any event ever merited the description of miracle," says the Rev. Christian Fuhrer, it was the 1989 revolution that reunited East and West Germany, "a revolution that grew out of the church." November 6, 2009: The Rev. Christian Fuhrer Extended Interview fred yi Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:10:47 -0000 Twenty years ago, a nonviolent movement emerged from the sanctuary of historic St. Nikolai Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leipzig. It was rooted, according to its pastor, in weekly prayers for peace and readings from the Sermon on the Mount that countered "the reality of political hopelessness." November 6, 2009: Health Care and the Common Good fred yi Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:08:54 -0000 Hastings Center bioethicist and philosopher Daniel Callahan says the common good as a moral value should be the foundation for American health care reform, but it has been largely absent from the current public debate.
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