Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular ...modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics. At the same time, the Catholic Church has sought a "holy alliance" among the world's faiths to recentralize devout influence, an important, albeit little-noticed, evolution in international relations.Holy Wars and Holy Allianceexplores the nation-state's current crisis in order to better understand the religious resurgence's implications for geopolitics. Manlio Graziano looks at how the Catholic Church promotes dialogue and action linking world religions, and examines how it has used its material, financial, and institutional strength to gain power and increase its profile in present-day international politics. Challenging the idea that modernity is tied to progress and secularization, Graziano documents the "return" or the "revenge" of God in all facets of life. He shows that tolerance, pluralism, democracy, and science have not triumphed as once predicted. To fully grasp the destabilizing dynamics at work today, he argues, we must appreciate the nature of religious struggles and political holy wars now unfolding across the international stage.
The Ebola patient in Dallas is "fighting for his life," but he remains the only confirmed victim of the disease in the United States, and public health officials remain confident about their ability ...to contain the disease, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.
The Ebola patient in Dallas is "fighting for his life," but he remains the only confirmed victim of the disease in the United States, and public health officials remain confident about their ability ...to contain the disease, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday.
In this work, Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) is used to qualitatively and quantitatively investigate the structure of turbulence near an interface, and how these structures promote mass transfer. ...The canonical flow used in this work is that of open channel flow, that is, gravity-driven flow over a slightly inclined flat plate, bounded above by a free surface (e.g. a gas phase). To clarify the affect of these assumptions on channel flow, three different DNS were performed, each differing only by the boundary conditions employed at the free surface. In the first, or base, case, the clean, rigid slip-surface was imposed. In the second simulation, insoluble surfactants were introduced to the rigid slip-surface. In the last simulation, the rigid surface was replaced with a linearized version of the actual continuity of stress conditions. Surfactants were not present in the ‘linearized’ free surface. In order to assess the affect of these boundary conditions on the liquid-side mass transfer coefficient, a passive scalar concentration field was coupled to these three simulations. The average diffusional flux at the surface was used to compute the mass transfer coefficients. The passive concentration field was also simulated using experimental velocity data, measured by Kumar et. a1.22. The experimental velocity data consisted of a time series of velocities measured from an experiment, and was used to drive the passive scalar equation. This numerical experiment spans the gap between the ‘fully’ simulated case (i.e. both velocity and passive scalar concentration) and the experimental results found in the literature. The main result of this thesis is that the rigid slip-surface does not significantly change the characteristics of turbulence near the interface, especially at length scales important for mass transfer. This result is limited to flows without wind shear and with waves of low steepness. The effect of surfactant concentration on the near interface turbulence is much more dramatic. The turbulent intensities at the interface are damped, and there is a modification of the turbulent energy transfer at the interface. For a clean surface, normal motions (i.e. upwellings), are redistributed into surface-parallel motions near the interface. For a contaminated surface, this energy transfer process is shifted further below the interface, resulting in less surface renewal. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Later in the evening, tens of thousands of ticketholders will cram into the 2.3-million-square-foot Washington Convention Center, where they will be entertained by the likes of Smokey Robinson, ...Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and the cast of TV's Glee - all while hoping for a glimpse of Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, twirling around the dance floor.
"I realize that passing this budget won't be easy," Barack Obama said. He predicted fierce opposition from the insurance industry, oil and gas companies, student lenders and banks, all of which risk ...losing government subsidies or paying higher taxes if the budget passes. "I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak," he said. "My message to them is this: So am I." "I think it's terrifying in the policy implications as well as mind-boggling in the numbers," Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona and a Finance Committee member, said on the Fox network. "You're directly punishing job creation with this kind of huge tax policy." Representative Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, called the $3.6 trillion budget proposal "breathtaking." "You can't stop this in the House," Ryan said. "If you can get a few Democrats to turn then I think you can slow this thing down." Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-ranking Republican in the House, said the budget would impose a stifling effect on small-business owners.
WASHINGTON .A 29-year old former technical assistant for the CIA was the source for a series of recent disclosures about the government's collection of huge amounts of private Internet and telephone ...data, the British newspaper The Guardian revealed Sunday.
In recent days, the Obama administration and other proponents have defended the surveillance program, revealing that it had helped to thwart terrorist plots, in order to bolster assertions that such ...data collection was necessary to keep Americans safe.
In schools planned and financed by public school corporations, students sat in blandly decorated classrooms paying attention, more or less, to their public school teacher, then ate a lunch prepared, ...for better or worse, by public school cooks, and later rode home in yellow public school buses. Today, depending on the school system, the student may sit in a building leased from a private corporation, have an in-school tutor whose boss is a private company, eat a Big Mac for lunch in a cafeteria run by a private caterer, and see corporate advertising in the gym (3 million students do) or on the side of the bus he rides home which, in 4 of 10 cases, will be operated by a private transportation company. Actually, in some of its guises, such as bus transportation and food services, the public-private relationship is not so new. In others, particularly the intrusion of corporate advertising, the phenomenon has long existed in the 1920s, Ivory Soap sponsored soap-carving competitions in schools but has grown dramatically in this decade.
So Mr. David Schuster signed up for a continuing-education course in entrepreneurship at the University of California-San Diego. He got "a lot of very practical information about how small businesses ...operate," he says now, "about finances, marketing, all aspects." Once viewed by many as the province of dropouts and bored faculty spouses, continuing education increasingly caters to already skilled, and often highly educated, people. Classes may be full of people like Mr. Schuster and Mr. Mike Skibo, who want to make the most of their talents, or those who are seeking to remain employable at a time when human competence is a highly perishable commodity. A boom in continuing education that began 10 to 15 years ago still echoes, making adults the "new majority" in U.S. education, as Susan Nickens, associate dean at the University of Maryland's University College, put it. Campus after campus reports big enrollment increases since 1980 in some cases, as much as a doubling.
