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POPSIrreligious The American Religious Identification Survey made headlines in 2001 when it reported that the number of people with no religious affiliation had increased sharply since 1990, from 8.2 to 14.1 percent. The latest report, released last month, put the number at 15 percent.
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POPSThe Code Even the CIA Can't Crack and the elusiveness of truth, its message written entirely in code. Almost 20 years after its dedication, the text has yet to be fully deciphered. A bleary-eyed global community of self-styled cryptanalysts—along with some of the agency's own staffers—has seen three of its four sections solved, revealing evocative prose that only makes the puzzle more confusing. Still uncracked are the 97 characters of the fourth part (known as K4 in Kryptos-speak). And the longer the deadlock continues, the crazier people get.
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POPSGrandually Gaining Legal Ground The reason religious conservatives have largely failed in their crusade to treat gays and lesbians as second-class citizens speaks to what Americans are all about. We may be far from perfect but every attempt at lasting discrimination in this country has failed because--bottom line--when confronted with the basic choice of equality or inequality, the vast majority of Americans will choose equality.
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POPSThose Uppity Atheists I'm sure certain religionists are pining for the days when atheists kept quiet and in their place. I can't help but reflect on other minorities that have experienced the same situation recently. Once uncapped, there's no going back into the bottle.
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