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...horrors of human experience. Believing that everything is part of God's master plan affords them the complacency of accepting the most terrible of tragedies. It is with the deepest respect that I read about the struggle of the real Mother Teresa, who, it now appears, had no such crutch. She soldiered on because she was a good and caring human helping her fellow man endure senseless suffering. If there is a God, Teresa is sitting at his side in heaven. Diane Brennan, Flagstaff, Arizona...
...horrors of human experience. Believing that everything is part of God's master plan affords them the complacency of accepting the most terrible of tragedies. It is with the deepest respect that I read about the struggle of the real Mother Teresa, who, it now appears, had no such crutch. She soldiered on because she was a good and caring human helping her fellow man endure senseless suffering. If there is a God, Teresa is sitting at his side in heaven...
Some life-hacking fans get so wrapped up in reading about efficiency that the sites become, ironically, another procrastination crutch. "We don't need to overwhelm people with useless tips on how to put on a hat faster," Mann says. One hack he advocates is what he calls 10+2x5. Rather than starting work only to be sucked into time-wasting websites, set a timer for 10 minutes and focus exclusively on a task for that interval. Then give yourself two minutes for whatever frivolity you crave. Repeat that process five times, and you'll have gotten 50 productive...
...inducing lady, you also get faux-grainy footage, zombies, and Kurt Russell. Now that guy, I’d pay to see. “Escape From New York” is a forgotten classic, yo. Ocean’s 13 Trailer Trash Oh, Jesus H. Christ on a crutch. For one thing, the trailer doesn’t even live up to the basic level of slickness that you’d expect from a trailer in the “Ocean’s Insert Number Here” series. The clip moves at an almost glacial pace...
...textbook case of government creating an industry through regulation and subsidies. Thanks to a law passed in 2000 and amended in 2003, solar-energy producers command a high price for the electricity they generate, a rate good for 20 years. Can solar become competitive without the government crutch? The case is still open...