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Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too. The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have. Over the past few years, cosmologists have taken this powerful theory of what happens at the level of subatomic particles and tried to extend it to understand the universe, since it began in the subatomic realm during the Big Bang. The Boomerang Nebula, mankind ‘shortening the universe’s life’ Cosmologists claim by observing dark...

Bush's Terror Analysis: Erroneous and Exaggerated George Bush's latest "terrorism" speech on August 31, showed gross misperceptions of terrorism, its causes, exaggerations of its threats, and he continued to demonize Islam -- and all probably staged for reasons of domestic electoral politics, says Rami G. Khouri. BEIRUT -- There is something sad about a grown man playing children's make-believe war games in a tree-house in grandpa's back yard -- which is how George W. Bush came across Thursday night in his speech on the importance of winning the war in Iraq in the global battle against terrorism. Rarely does a...