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...praised Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose beliefs he called "the bedrock of Christian faith: Love your enemies...
...talk to them a lot in a responsive way--have a slight advantage over kids in less attentive settings when it comes to language and learning abilities. Those include such skills as recognizing shapes or understanding relations among objects--what study coordinator Sarah Friedman of the NICHD called "the bedrock of school readiness." Then again, children who spend long hours in day care, especially low-quality care, were slightly less engaged in their interactions with moms, who were themselves less sensitive to the child's cues. That was noted in particular among mothers who used day care heavily before...
Homosexuality is a contentious issue, but we must face that tension not with moral absolutism but with "tolerance and dialogue." Mr. McFadden, while expressing his moral positions and advocating dialogue, does nothing but chip away from the bedrock of toleration on which this country was supposedly founded. --Alex-Handrah Aime...
...abuse and neglect. Songs celebrating rape and murder are not the hallmark of a healthy culture. Still, it's fair to ask whether something as ideologically jumbled as the new politics of virtue can ultimately prove coherent. Can liberals and conservatives so easily embrace the same ideas without surrendering bedrock beliefs? Or, in fact, might a real moral recovery entail some bitter medicine for both...
...solar wind connect with those that surround the earth, creating a kind of funnel that channels huge quantities of solar plasma into the magnetosphere. In response, powerful currents surge through the high reaches of the atmosphere, where they can utterly scramble broadcast signals, and even through seawater and bedrock. These surface currents can corrode buried pipelines, interrupt transatlantic phone conversations and overheat electrical transformers. In 1989, during the most recent solar maximum, currents induced by a geomagnetic storm brought down the power grid that supplies Canada's Quebec province...