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As the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York was still smoldering, President George W. Bush told the nation that the terrorists came from a small group of religious extremists who 鈥渉ate our freedoms.鈥� That extremism, he said, 鈥減erverts the peaceful teachings of Islam.鈥� Religious tension is as...

Viewing worlds here, near and far, CU scholars seek answers With his usual irreverence, the author Bill Bryson recently ruminated on the origin of life. 鈥淚t is possible that events and conditions that led to the rise of life on Earth are not quite as extraordinary as we like to...

James Balog vividly illustrates the rapid retreat of ice sheets and glaciers on Earth. His work, which has appeared on the cover of National Geographic and on PBS, turns climate-change skeptics into believers, he says. Balog鈥檚 time-lapse photography compresses months of ice retreat into a few minutes of dramatic footage,...

Ruth and Ken Wright have a long history of professional success. The pair also has an abiding passion for the poetry of Shakespeare. Their work and personal interests are as complementary as they are to each other. Ruth is an attorney who spent years as a state legislator and environmental...

Genes increasing risk for mental disorders should have been weeded out of the gene pool. Why haven鈥檛 they been? Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental disorders usually appear by the time the sufferers are in their reproductive prime, and these people typically have fewer offspring (the currency of natural selection)...

Mountain Research Station chief expands understanding of alpine environments Bill Bowman on Niwot Ridge near the Continental Divide. A caption accompanying this picture on Bowman's web site says, "My field office - where work really gets done." Bill Bowman is a Colorado native whose parents graduated from the University of...

With a lot of help from Jane Butcher and many others Jane Butcher (center) works with students and staff to prepare for the 61st annual Conference on World Affairs. The conference begins April 6th, and is comprised of more than 200 sessions. In 1963, a young Jane Butcher attended a...

Nicole Gibson鈥檚 grandparents set aside money for her college. She鈥檚 keenly aware of her good fortune. Now she鈥檚 paying it forward. Gibson is a 2004 environmental-studies graduate of the University of Colorado who began funding a scholarship in 2005. The $1,000 Donald and Marjorie Gibson Scholarship is open to full-time...

The Cold War is history, and major nuclear powers are slashing their arsenals. No rational leader would start a nuclear war. And even if India and Pakistan traded a few nuclear bombs, conventional wisdom suggests, most of the world wouldn鈥檛 suffer much. The nuclear threat is diminishing, right? Wrong. That鈥檚...

Surprising similarities between divergent groups, but old stereotypes persist, researcher says Though they express their sexuality in starkly different ways, evangelical Christian men and goth men share a startling amount of common ground in their 鈥渋ntimacy talk,鈥� which in both cases tends to emphasize intimacy, vulnerability and respect for women...