Teaching the Controversy
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"Fear of Vaccines: Is It Warranted?" (A: No)

The Times op-ed page letters today are struggling with how vaccines do or do not cause autism (which they don't).

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Handicapping the Grammys: Best New Age Album

The nominees are in. And at first glance, the overwhelming, almost prohibitive favorite here in the "Best New Age Album" category has to be considered Zamora's "Instrumental Oasis Vol. 4," which is astonishing considering where we've been with him. After "Instrumental Oasis Vol. 3," there were many, myself included, who felt that with that bone crunch of an album, the Magical Places genre had nowhere else to go. I mean, not to get fanboyish, but six years later, every time I play the "Midnight Mystery" track (for the thousandth or two-thousandth time), I still find new things in it. That an artist working in Magical could [...]