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Intelligent Design Takes Center Stage In the past, schools were urged to teach creationism or 'teach the controversy.' Now, intelligent design is the new war cry. By Larry Witham The debate over "intelligent design," a topic on the borderland between science and theology, has climbed its way to two new pinnacles lately: the White House and the Vatican. Larry Witham is a Maryland writer who has published three books on science and religion, including 'Where Darwin Meets the Bible' and the forthcoming 'The Measure of God' (HarperSanFrancisco).

6 held as British widen bomb hunt By Alan Cowell The New York Times MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 2005 In Italy, where more than a dozen searches have been carried out in the last few days. the police announced on Sunday the arrest of a man identified as Fati Issac, though he was not charged with an terror-related crimes. Several accounts in the Italian press said he was a brother of Osman Hussain. A police official in the northern city of Brescia, where the suspect was arrested, would only confirm the arrest and say that he was charged with crimes connected...