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When Melody Hensley first met Lawrence Krauss, she was a 29-year-old makeup artist at a department store, and he was one of her intellectual idols. She ran an atheist website in her spare time and had just started volunteering for the Center for Inquiry (CFI), a nonprofit group committed to promoting science and reason above faith. She was hoping to build a career in the burgeoning “skeptics” movement, and Krauss was one of its brightest luminaries. At a CFI event in November 2006, Krauss asked Hensley for her card, and later, as she was leaving, asked her if she was...

WASHINGTON: The Indian Army ex-serviceman who went on a shooting rampage in Cleveland’s Case Western Reserve University on Friday killing a student and wounding two others was a lonely bachelor involved in myriad social and political causes who lost it after a prankster hacked his beloved website. The computer and the worldwide Web was Biswanath Halder’s life. He worked eight hours a day at the University’s business school computer lab to promote personal, social and political causes ranging from ambitious business plans to opposing the US war on Iraq. He listed and forwarded hundreds of petitions. Halder earned a management...