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Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future

by Becky Garrison 10-20-2008
Through videos, dioramas, and interactive stations, the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) exhibit Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future, explores the different ways we have altered the natural world through our
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Mugabe's Unilateralism Obstructs Power-Sharing in Zimbabwe

by Nontando Hadebe 10-20-2008
Last week, Robert Mugabe unilaterally appointed his own ministers to all key positions.
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Seeing Immigration Through Biblical Spectacles

by Rich Nathan 10-20-2008
About 20 years ago, Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon wrote a book provocatively titled Resident Aliens.
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Party for Your Right to Fight Poverty

by Monte Peterson 10-17-2008
This week, a number of "awareness days" fall on the calendar-October 16 was World Food Day, today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17-19 are the Millenium Development Gr
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What New Monastics Can Learn from History (Part 2)

by Onleilove Alston 10-17-2008
[continued from part 1] Out of a general respect for anyone who seeks to serve the inner city (I grew up in the housing projects of Brook
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History Won't Wash Away Torture's Shame

by Jimmy McCarty 10-17-2008
According to a recent article in The Washington Post, the Bush administratio
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Put the 'Labor' Back in Secretary of Labor (Our Secretary of Labor is M.I.A., Part 2)

by Kim Bobo 10-17-2008
[continued from part 1] Regardless of who wins the presidential election, we need a secretary of labor who thinks and acts like Frances Perkins.
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The Sad Truth about the Surge

by Tony Campolo 10-17-2008
In a recent conversation I had about the coming election, a friend reiterated the campaign rhetoric that the "surge" in Iraq has worked, and that Barack Obama ought to admit that John McCain was ri
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A New Conversation on Abortion

by Jim Wallis 10-16-2008
In last evening's presidential debate, the first steps were taken toward a new national conversation about abortion. For too many years, the old one hadn't changed very much.
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