It may be the least likely literary spat in history. Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist famous for his rottweiler attacks on religion, has poured scorn on Peter Kay, the northern comic best known for a gentle joke about garlic bre…

Circumcision may provide even more protection against AIDS than was realized when two clinical trials in Africa were stopped two months ago because the results were so clear, according to studies being published today.The trials, in Kenya …

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1743898,00.html TS Eliot argued in his famous essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", "you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead." Eliot did not find it preposterous "th…