CANADA CRASH: A helicopter plunged to the ground and burst into flames in a residential neighborhood in western Canada on Tuesday, killing the three people aboard and one person on the ground, officials said.
U.S. EXPELLED: Two American military attaches who were expelled from Russia early this month had made an uninvited visit to a military aviation factory in Siberia that Russia regards as strategic, several American officials said this week. Neither the United States nor Russia has provided much information about the expulsions.
‘JUDGE’ BROWN: Two British government ministers accidentally revealed confidential documents Tuesday — including proposals for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to star in a reality TV show. Close-up images of an e-mail printout showed details of a talent show for young lawmakers in which Brown would be a judge.
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‘The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.’
– Albert Einstein, in a 1954 letter to philosopher Eric Gutkind that is expected to fetch up to $16,000 at auction Thursday. During his lifetime, Einstein expressed complex?and arguably contradictory?views on faith, perceiving a universe suffused with spirituality while rejecting organized religion.
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