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Illinois-The driver fails to see stopped traffic and crashes into multiple cars at full speed.

Three recent best-selling authors - Christopher Hitchens in "God Is Not Great," Richard Dawkins in "The God Delusion" and Sam Harris in "The End of Faith" - use flawed history to support their arguments. All three assert that atheism must replace religious faith because the past proves the dangers of religion so persuasively that only denying God will save us from the crimes of religion. They offer historical evidence based on a framework that most historians abandoned when it broke down during the great upheavals of the past century. In denying God, they also deny the history of the 20th...

United States City planningTunnel vision Feb 22nd 2007 | SEATTLE From The Economist print editionMayor and governor are mud-wrestling over Seattle's waterfront   APThere's a great view here somewhere IT SHOULD be among the most beautiful cityscapes on the west coast: a mural of distant mountains, piers jutting into sun-flecked Elliott Bay and giant orange cranes plucking containers from freighters. Overlooking Seattle's waterfront, however, is a noisy 1950s elevated highway in hideous grey concrete.The elevated highway—known in Seattle simply as “the viaduct”—is also a hazard. It was damaged by an earthquake in 2001, and engineers believe that another quake...