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...liked, broadcast in both English and Spanish, showing a smiling baby crawling in the diapers. The nurses at Garfield Medical Center in Monterey Park, Calif, gave Parilla free samples of Pampers and other P&G brands like Crest and Tide as she checked out after Fatima's birth (Parilla uses Crest, although she prefers Cheer, another P&G brand, to Tide). At a local health clinic, she picked up a copy of Avanzando con Tu Familia (Helping Your Family Move Ahead), a P&G-published Martha Stewart Living for recent Hispanic immigrants that reaches 1 million homes across the country...
...weakness but our glory. The most universal of these inspirations have come, literally, from outer space, from our few distant glimpses of the uniqueness of our tiny earthly habitat and the brilliance of the species that could contrive to get up, out and beyond it. Indeed, the birth of our modern "whole earth" consciousness can be traced to a single act of exploration: Apollo 8's circumnavigation of the moon and the astonishing photo--Earthrise, that vision of a little blue planet--that it sent back...
...your report "Behind the First Noel," which explored the story of Christ's birth as told in the Gospels [Dec. 20]: Jesus remains an enigmatic person who is truly irreducible, and for this reason the quest for the historical Jesus continues. To the Gospel writers Matthew and Luke, the miraculous conception of Jesus was a divine act, unparalleled in history. Of course, whether people accept such a miracle depends on their philosophical world view. Luke: 1-37 says that the angel Gabriel assured Mary, "For with God nothing shall be impossible." That one passage explains it all. (The Rev.) Tony...
...Nearly everything about the stories of Jesus' birth is mythical. Over the years tradition has added layers to the tales: farm animals, three Kings, the celebration of Christmas during the winter solstice. Inquisitive people?those who are not satisfied with the attitude of others who think they learned all they need to know about Christmas in kindergarten?can celebrate the truth behind the myths. If we can imagine humility instead of pride; simplicity in a complex, greedy world; peace reigning over hate and war; and inclusivity rather than bigotry and oppression, then we can imagine the divine potential...
...Your article was a reverent but not cloying look at the birth of a man who changed the world. Too often in our troubled lives we overemphasize the divinity of Jesus and miss his message. The central core of his ministry is love. Christ's magnificent legacy is not so much the stories of miracles as his genius in understanding our human predicament and conveying remarkably simple answers to our problems. We should not forget that the essence of his ministry is love, not just for ourselves and those close to us but for everyone. Larry Gibson Palm Springs, California...