THE FOCUS
DECEMBER 1, 2006 Volume 2, Issue 47/48
Published by the Center For
Atheism (CFA)
Editor: Suzy
Lanza
The Focus will provide links to articles collected from major newspapers & magazines and will be emailed weekly.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS:
This Week's Featured Articles
Section #1: News
Articles
Section #2: CFA
Programs
Section #3: Special
Notices
Section #4: Legislation Alerts
Comments, suggestions and subscriptions:
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This Week's Featured Articles
(some publications may require that you sign up for membership to view their article)
ATHEISM
| Suspension of Disbelief. Art Student Expelled—For Atheism? |
Proving that showing a little "leg" can really grab attention, a dolphin with four fins has scientists speculating that the animal may be an evolutionary throwback.
It Wasn’t Diet That Took Out the Competition - New York Times
Evolution: Who Gave Us Our Smarts? - Newsweek Periscope -
MSNBC.com
The evolution of intelligence, and
why our brains have shrunk - PhysOrg.com
Wanting to better understand the origins of human uniqueness,
scientists from the University of Tennessee have recently modeled the evolution
of the brain ...
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HUMOR
Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons - BREAK.com
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| The Jewish
War Veterans of the USA (JWV) commends the Toys for Tots program, ... We
can’t take a chance on sending a talking Jesus doll to a Jewish family
... |
SECTION TWO: CFA PROGRAMS
The Center for Atheism (CFA) was established by the New York City Atheists as a separate and independent national organization to propose, develop and be a catalyst for new national activities supporting the objectives of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, skeptics, secularists and separation-of-church/state advocates.
CFA will accept and review suggestions from individuals and other secular
organizations that will foster our goals.
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SECTION THREE: SPECIAL
NOTICES
No special notices for this week...
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SECTION FOUR: LEGISLATION
ALERTS
No special notices for this week...