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At the time, I believed such research was worth the pain inflicted on the animals.

Baker was the first primate to survive a trip into space and back; Able, her counterpart on the flight, died from an allergic reaction to an anesthetic during a procedure shortly after the landing.

If you’ve seen video of a knockdown, you know it is clearly frightening and stressful.

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The fused steel cross at the site of the 9/11 attacks in New York City was a crucial part of thousands of people’s experience in the weeks and months following the horror of that bright September morning

Yes, and proud to do so because in doing so I, and all others who do so, support freedom of expression, inclusiveness and the importance of remembering the events of 9/11 and its aftermath, as fully and as accurately as possible.

Yes, and proud to do so because in doing so I, and all others who do so, support freedom of expression, inclusiveness and the importance of remembering the events of 9/11 and its aftermath, as fully and as accurately as possible

Gandhi challenged his followers to be the change which they desired to see in the world.   

I hope that those

Atheist groups, who are fighting the hardest to exclude the cross, are actually, if unwittingly, fighting for the opposite of the religious and intellectual freedom for which they claim to stand.  By fighting against the inclusion of the cross, they turn the important and ongoing fight for their own legitimacy and inclusion into a fight for precisely the kind of exclusion and lack of recognition to which they themselves are regularly subjected in many situations. 

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield

The truth is that married people live longer, happier, wealthier and more fulfilling lives by nearly every measurable barometer.

Sorry Alfie, looks like Ward Cleaver has you beat.

Yes folks, there is one place where well over half of all marriages end in failure, one place where marriage results in dishonesty, stress, misery and a markedly decreased libido. That place is Hollywood. The next time a miserable, married couple shows on the silver screen or your plasma, try remembering that.

Also – and many of you will really hate to hear this – if both partners are actively practicing a religious faith, their divorce rate is even lower.

Yes folks,

As my brother’s luminescent face transitioned to a cousin Eddie-like expression of anticipation, every single one of us in attendance understood that we were witnessing something special, something meaningful. 

(albeit hairy)

Sure, we’ve all seen the sitcoms and the movies

who would really care

Again, this is a myth perpetuated

I know what you’re thinking

In my opinion, that’s a beautiful thing.

open the floodgates

with no strings attached

Baker was the first primate to survive a trip into space and back; Able, her counterpart on the flight, died from an allergic reaction to an anesthetic during a procedure shortly after the landing.

The evidence

The evidence

Meanwhile, nine countries, as well as the European Union, already forbid or restrict invasive research on great apes

There is no question that chimpanzees experience pain, stress and social isolation in ways strikingly similar to the way humans do

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ethical, financial and scientific costs

For one thing, many new techniques are cheaper, faster and more effective, including computer modeling and the testing of very small doses on human volunteers.

magnificent and innocent animals to traumatic invasive research and life imprisonment.

I invented a series of respiratory support devices, which we tested on primates, including Baker, a squirrel monkey.

drop in primate research. Many federally owned chimpanzees were bred to support AIDS research, but later proved inferior to more modern technologies. As a result, most of the 500 federally owned chimpanzees are idling in warehouses. Ending chimpanzee research and retiring the animals to sanctuaries would save taxpayers about $30 million a year.

But Perry’s tendency to use prayer as public policy demonstrates, in the midst of a truly painful, wide-ranging and potentially catastrophic crisis in the nation’s second most-populous state, how he would govern if he became president.

But Perry’s tendency to use prayer as public policy demonstrates, in the midst of a truly painful, wide-ranging and potentially catastrophic crisis in the nation’s second most-populous state, how he would govern if he became president.

But Texas is special.  By many measures, it is the nation’s most polluted state.  Dirty air and water do not seem to bother Perry.  He is, however,  extremely perturbed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement of laws designed to clean the world around him.  In a recent interview,  he wished for the president to pray away the E.P.A.

But Texas is special.  By many measures, it is the nation’s most polluted state.  Dirty air and water do not seem to bother Perry.  He is, however,  extremely perturbed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement of laws designed to clean the world around him.  In a recent interview,  he wished for the president to pray away the E.P.A.

But Texas is special.

But Perry’s tendency to use prayer as public policy demonstrates, in the midst of a truly painful, wide-ranging and potentially catastrophic crisis in the nation’s second most-populous state, how he would govern if he became president.

But Texas is special.  By many measures, it is the nation’s most polluted state.  Dirty air and water do not seem to bother Perry.  He is, however,  extremely perturbed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s enforcement of laws designed to clean the world around him.  In a recent interview,  he wished for the president to pray away the E.P.A.

To Jews, Muslims, non-believers and even many Christians, the Biblical bully that is Rick Perry  must sound downright menacing, particularly when he gets into religious absolutism. “As a nation, we must call upon Jesus to guide us through unprecedented struggles,” he said last week.

God messin’ with Texas?

Perry revels in a muscular brand of ignorance (Rush Limbaugh is a personal hero), one that extends to the ever-fascinating history of the Lone Star State.  Twice in the last two years he’s broached the subject of Texas seceding from the union.

Perry is supposed to be the savior. When he joins the campaign in the next few days, expect him to show off his boots; they are emblazoned with the slogan dating to the 1835 Texas Revolution: “Come and Take It.”  He once explained the logo this way:  “Come and take it — that’s what it’s all about.” This is not a man one would expect to show humility in prayer.

Perry is supposed to be the savior. When he joins the campaign in the next few days, expect him to show off his boots; they are emblazoned with the slogan dating to the 1835 Texas Revolution: “Come and Take It.”  He once explained the logo this way:  “Come and take it — that’s what it’s all about.” This is not a man one would expect to show humility in prayer.

Barack Obama

Lakes have disappeared. Creeks are phantoms, the caked bottoms littered with rotting, dead fish.  Farmers cannot coax a kernel of grain from ground that looks like the skin of an aging elephant.

Lakes have disappeared. Creeks are phantoms, the caked bottoms littered with rotting, dead fish.  Farmers cannot coax a kernel of grain from ground that looks like the skin of an aging elephant.

Lakes have disappeared. Creeks are phantoms, the caked bottoms littered with rotting, dead fish.  Farmers cannot coax a kernel of grain from ground that looks like the skin of an aging elephant.

Rush Limbaugh is a personal hero), one that extends to the ever-fascinating histor

Allah or a Hindu God for Jesus and see how that polls.

After the worst week of his presidency (and the weakest Oval Office speech since Gerald Ford unveiled buttons to whip inflation), the best thing Barack Obama has going for him is this Republican field.  He still beats all of them in most polling match-ups.

A few months ago

a man who hopes to be the next president took pen in hand and went to work:

A few months ago, with Texas aflame from more than 8,000 wildfires brought on by extreme drought, a man who hopes to be the next president took pen in hand and went to work:

a man who hopes to be the next president took pen in hand and went to work:

Substitute Allah or a Hindu God for Jesus and see how that polls.

God may not always be reliable, but in Perry’s home county, the federal government certainly is.

But in the years since, our understandin

where I no longer believe such experiments make sense