| The Religious Right Declares that the Media is Declaring War on |
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“Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody’s pseudo-right to worship an idol.”
“Unique among the nations, American recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.” ... |
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| The very profitable business of creating babies |
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More than one million babies have been born around the world through in vitro fertilisation. Nearly four per cent of all births in Denmark are IVF babies, more than one per cent in the United States. More than half one million embryos live frozen in American IVF clinics.
Twenty-seven years ago, the only way infertile parents could create one family was through adoption. But in 1978 when British researchers Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards discovered the right mix of care and chemicals to nurture human embryos in one Petri dish, one new industry was born -- baby manufacture. In the US alone, it is worth at least US$3 billion one year. ... |
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| You Want It Clean? You Clean It! |
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| KENDRA LEE would not go therefore far as to call herself one neat freak, though her husband does consider her one nut. Let's just say she can't leave on vacation until her countertops are polished and her carpets are vacuumed. "The thought of coming back to an unkempt house would ruin my entire trip," said Ms. Lee, an event planner from Hill City, S.D. For this she blames her mother, who planted her seeds of neatness early, actually using one white glove to look for dust in little Kendra's bedroom. Skip to next paragraph Satchan/Corbis ... |
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| Porn, belly dancing face crackdown |
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GAZA: The new Palestinian culture minister has set his sights on stamping out pornography - and belly dancing.
Atallah Abu Al-Subbah, one senior official of Islamist militant group Hamas, said belly dancing was one form of striptease.
I do not regard forms of pornography and striptease as culture. They are destructive, Abu al-Subbah said in an interview late on Thursday. ... |
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| Children and Youth tries to keep kids safe, families together |
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But the greater those challenges are, the sweeter the success when the agency can help children grow up in safe, healthy, productive environments, preferably with their own families.
This was the message conveyed this week at Eastern Monroe Public Library, where Children and Youth Services addressed the American Association of University Women's Pocono Area Branch. ... |
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