Word: crossing
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...part of Rudd's own election campaign platform, though last week's announcement was the first major step his administration has taken on the issue. "The Australian government promised to do something two years ago. They have been stalling on the issue," says Wally Franklin of the Southern Cross University Whale Research Centre in Lismore, in New South Wales. "Whales are being killed unnecessarily, and illegally. Australia has a case, but it looks like the missing ingredient is political will...
...tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked," investor Warren Buffett has said. The U.S. has none of the currency difficulties of the PIGS. We do have a government deficit expected to hit 10.6% of GDP this year and a total federal debt that will cross 100% of GDP in 2012, according to White House projections. The rolling crisis of the past three years has been an embarrassing exercise in exposing the financially underclothed. It doesn't appear to be over--and the U.S. isn't what you would call well dressed...
...case of Haiti, from infections that spread when crushed limbs aren't amputated fast enough. Help never arrives fast enough because no two disasters are alike and chaos is an agile enemy. So I wondered how we would feel, after texting our $10 donations to the Red Cross and writing checks to Save the Children, still coming home night after night to the growing mass grave on our flat-screens...
...feed a hundred people, Mother Teresa used to say, then feed just one. There are slow-motion disasters everywhere. The Red Cross is doing heroic work in Haiti, but it is also doing it around the corner, when a house burns down. It may not feel glorious, but often the greatest good is accomplished quietly, invisibly. The choice is not either-or. We can give globally and help locally. Either way, the same principle holds in helping as in healing: First, do no harm...
This basic conversation starter also serves to ease the formation of cross-clique friendships. Whether we admit it or not, it cannot be denied that social bubbles develop quickly. These groups can be based upon anything from a sports team to an entryway. Such bubbles may inadvertently intimidate others who fall outside the circle. In this instance, the four-point introduction can be key to fostering friendships between cliques because it is, by its nature, so general that relationships can be built between almost any set of people. In that sense, this particular greeting deserves a comeback to ensure...