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How Will You Be Voting in '06?
A federal law requires that New York State replace its voting machines with new ones by the ’06 elections. But local officials say that’s practically impossible. Will New York miss the deadline, and miss out on federal funding to boot?
Body and Soul
Paul Bloom, professor of psychology and linguistics at Yale University and author, Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human (Basic Books, 2004),
on why humans are hard-wired to believe in the supernatural
» Is God an Accident? (Atlantic Monthly, December 2005)
How Will You Vote in 2006?
Bo Lipari, executive director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting
- on the inadequacies of New York's electronic voting machines
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New Yorkers for Verified Voting homepage
The Train Has Left the Station
Beth Fertig, WNYC reporter
- on the transit workers' new contract
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Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Grad Center Professor of Sociology, author How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
(Yale University Press, 2003)
- on the pros and cons of the TWU contract
» Stanley Aronowitz's bio and publications
Sending Limbo to Hell
Ed Vacek, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Professor of Moral Thought
- on doing away with limbo
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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.
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