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An atheist was walking through the woods. 'What majestic trees! 'What powerful rivers! 'What beautiful animals! He said to himself. Suddenly, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look . . . and saw a 7-foot grizzly bear charge towards him. He ran as fast as he could along the path. He looked over his shoulder & saw that the bear was closing on him .... He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer .... and then ..... He tripped and fell. Rolling over to pick himself up, he found the...

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US ex president Jimmy Carter labeled as "completely unjustified" that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has led the acts against US President George W. Bush in parallel to the Summit of the Americas held in the Argentinean city of Mar del Plata, AFP reported. "I think that leading a demonstration against the US president is completely unjustified," Carter told CNN news channel, which aired on live the ceremony closed by Chávez before an audience of 40,000 in a sports stadium. In the ex president's view, Chávez is "a difficult person. I know it for my own experience."

In his new book, Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—And What It Means to Be Human, (Random House, 2005), author Joel Garreau describes research so cutting edge it seems mind-boggling: • A telekinetic monkey at Duke University in North Carolina uses its mind to move a robotic arm 600 miles (a thousand kilometers) away in Cambridge, Massachusetts. • At a Pentagon R-and-D facility in Virginia, program managers aim to create the ultimate warriors—soldiers that can fight without sleeping, tell their bodies to stop bleeding, and regrow lost hands and limbs. Garreau notes that regular...