Sociologists have long known that there are more religious women than men. Professor Rodney Stark thinks we should not ask why women are more religious, but why men are less interested in religion. “When you turn the question around it starts to get us somewhere and the evidence pretty strongly points to physiology, not socialization,” he says. He says some men are shortsighted and don’t think ahead, and so “going to prison or going to hell just doesn’t matter to these men.”
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Do you think it will always be immoral or is it only wrong if it doesn’t work? Or do you think it’s fine to try now? Be sure to vote.

In last week’s poll, we asked you why the visitors don’t reveal themselves, and about one-third of you said it’s because they’re evil and concealing it. It’s a shame the image of the evil alien has become fixed in people?s minds by the media, because we saw very little sign of this in the hundreds of thousands of letters we received from people who have had personal experiences with them. While this doesn’t mean they’re saintly, they may simply have their own agenda (just as we do).
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Residents of several Texas towns recently saw their skies filled with floating strands that looked like spider webs. They were visible in the air for five hours, and left light power poles wrapped with sticky strands and fuzzy wads of goo. “It blew my mind. I have never seen anything like it before,” says Lorenzo DeLacerta of Galveston. A spokesman at the National Weather Service says they had no reports of flying webs.

On October 8, wire services reported that “long, floating spider webs” were “bobbing through the skies of Santa Cruz, California?confusing some community members concerned about biological weapons…”.
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In the film “Simone,” Al Pacino created a computer-generated actress he passed off as real. Now this is no longer fiction: for his two sequels to “The Matrix,” director Joel Silver mixes real actors in the same scenes with computer-generated images and you can’t tell the difference. The movies will be released a few months apart in the spring of 2003. Larry and Andy Wachowski, with their partner Gaeta, say they can now make movies in which it’s impossible to tell real characters and scenes from fake ones.
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