15 Jan 2005
Religion and the White House

The teaser from the article says it all ...

President Bush's advisers bridle at the suggestion that the White House owes a big political debt to evangelicals, even though they were a key part of his winning coalition in November. "The election was bigger than any one segment," argues a senior White House official. But, while the president doesn't want to seem beholden to any special interest, this doesn't mean he is out of step with conservative Christians. Quite the contrary. "What people are overlooking is that his values are the same as the evangelicals'," another Bush adviser explains. "He considers himself one of them. He doesn't need anyone to push him in their direction. He's already there."

(link) [U.S. News & World Report]

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New prehistoric rock carvings discovered in Northern England

And exiting new find, indeed. The 'cup and ring' carvings mentioned are very common in the British Isles, and date from the time of Stonehenge and before. These new sites will help define the geography of their distribution, and consequently the cultural map of the prehistoric era.

More than 250 new examples of England's finest array of prehistoric rock art carvings, sited close to the Scottish border, have been discovered by archaeologists compiling a unique database. Now over one thousand of the 'cup and ring' carvings can be admired on a new website, which carries 6,000 images and is said to be the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. The site, which goes live today, includes the 250 panels unearthed during a two-and-a-half year trawl of some of England's remotest countryside, in the expansive moorlands of Northumberland.

(link) [Science Blog - Research News in Science, Health, Medicine, Space, Physics and More]

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