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		<title>THE ANTI-POVERTY CANDIDATE</title>
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When Senator John Edwards launched his U.S. Presidential bid last December, he made the announcement in the backyard of Orelia Tyler&#8217;s flood-ravaged home in New Orleans&#8217; Ninth Ward. &#34;We need to ask Americans to be patriotic about something beyond war,&#34; he said.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Since his announcement, the centrepiece of Edwards&#8217; campaign has been an anti-poverty agenda. Some call it a crusade, but Edwards has crafted serious proposals to eradicate poverty in the United States.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;For starters, the former Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee has a plan for universal health care. His proposal would require uninsured Americans to buy insurance from a pool of private plans, although an option would exist to buy into a program based on Medicare. Employers would have two choices: Either provide a healthcare package to their workers, or pay into a national fund for the uninsured.
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		<title>THE HILLARY ENIGMA</title>
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Earlier this month, Senator Hillary Clinton spoke to a small gathering at Hostos Community College in New York City. &#34;Many Americans are nervous about their own lives,&#34; she said. &#34;For many people, they&#8217;re being encouraged to think that their problems are due to immigrants. But really their problem is they&#8217;re in an economy that isn&#8217;t working for everyone.&#34;
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This is the sort of speech Senator Clinton delivers on a regular basis. Her progressive positions on immigration, children&#8217;s health, and veteran&#8217;s care are well established. That should please progressive and liberal voters. But Clinton remains an enigma to many Americans &#8211;especially some of her liberal supporters. Sometimes there appears to be no end to the question: Who is the real Hillary?
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Some critics say she&#8217;s betrayed those liberal supporters, and is only interested in winning. But conservatives rail against her position on numerous issues too.
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		<title>CHANGING OUR HABITS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT</title>
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by Robyn Lee
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently visited Canada to encourage &#8211;among other things&#8211; more urgent government action against global warming than Ottawa&#8217;s &#34;timid&#34; climate change plan.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Governor Schwarzenegger&#8217;s point is well taken. It&#8217;s the Harper government&#8217;s timidity on environmental action that&#8217;s been particularly frustrating. Ottawa is responding feebly to public anxiety about the environment, not only blaming the uncertainty of how environmental policies might affect the economy, but also the former Liberal government&#8217;s inaction to lay the groundwork.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;As in the United States, it&#8217;s not the federal government that&#8217;s taking a leadership role on the environment, but rather consumers and corporations who respond to consumer &#34;green&#34; demands. They understand that the cost of not acting on the environment is far greater.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Even the Ontario government&#8217;s initiatives seem tentative and almost apologetic. One example. Prompted by the provincial waste disposal crisis, the Ontario government would like Ontarians to cut back on the 7 million plastic grocery bags they use every day. If we don&#8217;t voluntarily cut our usage in half by 2012, the <br />[<i>click on article title to read the complete article</i>]]]></description>
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		<title>BEYOND FALL/REDEMPTION: THE NEW STORY</title>
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by Ted Schmidt
To preserve the natural world as the primary revelation of the divine must be the basic concern of religion.
Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion, to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Contemporary atonement ideas have succeeded primarily in turning God into a child-abusing heavenly parent. They have also turned Jesus into being the ultimate, perhaps even the masochistic, victim of a sadistic father God.
John Spong
For &#34;in him we live and move and have our being&#34; as even some of your poets have said.
Acts 17:28
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In 1969 the extraordinary Apollo space walk beamed back to earth the luminous and breathtaking shots of &#34;the big blue marble,&#34; our planet in all its radiance. This stunned the human community and the words of British astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle (d.2001) soon became true: &#34;Once a photograph of the earth taken from the outside is available a new idea as powerful as any <br />[<i>click on article title to read the complete article</i>]]]></description>
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		<title>OUR COMMON GROUND</title>
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by Mark Klempner
While the violence and intolerance in the world seems to be spinning out of control, I am fortified by the peace and harmony to be found in our little Costa Rican village. Not that it&#8217;s paradise here, but the kind of things that go on are definitely chicken soup for my CNN-besotted soul.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;When we first moved into our current house in Costa Rica&#8217;s central valley, one of our neighbours saw my very pregnant wife and decided to throw us a baby shower. Entering her backyard patio, we found a bevy of other neighbours gathered beside a pile of gifts. As if this wasn&#8217;t enough, they also took it upon themselves to pray for us and the baby, a blessing that was enhanced by several of them gently placing their hands on my wife&#8217;s huge belly.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Dazed by this unabashed expression of good will and caring, we stayed for rice and beans and some homemade dessert made from condensed milk. The only cloud on my mental skies was the question <br />[<i>click on article title to read the complete article</i>]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT DEBATE</title>
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by Maura Hanrahan
In his characteristic caustic tone, Christopher Hitchens tells us that religion is the cause of every evil in the world. According to Hitchens, most recently the author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, religion is to blame for, among other things, the long-term war in Northern Ireland.  Hitchens fails to recognize that people there were not killing each other for religious reasons. Northern Ireland is a relatively homogenous society, and such societies tend to divide along religious lines. That in itself doesn&#8217;t necessarily cause problems.  But in this case, it translated into economic privilege for some and deprivation for others. All this is lost on Hitchens, who is, tellingly, a supporter of the American war against Iraq.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Also secure on the bestseller lists is Richard Dawkins&#8217; The God Delusion. In this book, the evolutionary biologist condemns the false and &#34;pernicious&#34; belief in God. Sam Harris also attacks Christianity in his Letter to a Christian Nation: The End of Faith.
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		<title>THE SOCIAL EDGE INTERVIEW: AUTHOR AVNER OFFER</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gerry McCarthy

Avner Offer is Chichele professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Prior to his academic career, Offer spent 8 years working as a soldier, farmer, and conservation worker in Israel, where he was born and raised. He has been a research fellow at Merton College, Oxford, Cambridge, Clare Hall, the University of Southampton, Rutgers University, the Australian National University, and New York University.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Offer is the author of numerous books, including In Pursuit of the Quality of Life (1996). The subject he&#8217;s currently working on is &#34;From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism.&#34; His most recent book The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 was published recently by Oxford University Press. I reached him in Oxford, England to speak about the book.
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		<title>THE SOCIAL EDGE INTERVIEW: AUTHOR MARK VERNON</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gerry McCarthy

Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster, and journalist. He began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England. He has a doctorate from Warwick University in philosophy, and degrees in theology from Oxford University and Durham University.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Vernon has written for numerous publications, including: the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and The New Statesman. He can also be heard on BBC Radio 4&#8217;s In our Time.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Vernon is the author of The Philosophy of Friendship and Business: The Key Concepts. His new book Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Life was released in North America earlier this year by Palgrave Macmillan. I reached him in London, England.
Gerry McCarthy: You write about a &#34;lust for certainty&#34; in churches today. What are some of the consequences for Christians?
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		<title>THE RIGHTS OF THE DISABLED</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nancy Knapp
A Supreme Court of Canada ruling earlier this year continues to raise critical questions about how we recognize the rights of the disabled in this country.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Specifically the ruling (which was delivered on March 23) says VIA Rail must make their passenger cars more accessible to travellers in wheelchairs. Does the financial cost outweigh the statistical need for such a concession? Many argue those in wheelchairs should be guaranteed to a life equal to everyone else, and if they wish to board a train using their own personal wheelchairs over the ones supplied by VIA, that should be their prerogative. But only .5 percent of the rail users are disabled. Should VIA have to spend between $48 million to $92 million (after initially spending $29 millon on the cars) and then invest another $100 million to bring the cars into service? The Supreme Court said yes by a 5-4 ruling.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;It&#8217;s helpful to see the recent Supreme Court of Canada within the context of what&#8217;s happening internationally. In a resolution <br />[<i>click on article title to read the complete article</i>]]]></description>
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		<title>STORY OF TITANIC STILL WITH US</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Paul Butler



A Night to Remember (1958)


This June the inlets, bays, and harbours of Newfoundland&#8217;s Avalon Peninsula are surrounded by icebergs. Viewed from Signal Hill, the highest point of St. John&#8217;s, the bergs can conjure from the imagination anything from limestone rocks, to half submerged castles, to sun-bleached vertebrae of giant, mythological sea monsters.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;While floating ice is too contrary to yield consistent similes, all bergs possess the quiet, unearthly grandeur of the pole. They manage to be at once forbidding yet serene, and when a large berg cracks, the frigid air reverberates with a thunder-like growl. The most famous iceberg ever associated with Newfoundland was the one that sunk the great White Star Line passenger steamer Titanic on its maiden voyage.
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