Word: earthly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...might have thought the citizens of the tiny new nation of East Timor would be tired of violence. Hundreds were killed when Indonesia's departing military forces and pro-Jakarta militias implemented a scorched-earth policy in 1999; last year 37 people died and more than 150,000 fled their homes as tensions between the local police and military erupted. But last week it appeared some Timorese were still willing to make mischief to further their political ambitions. On Monday, President Jose Ramos-Horta announced the appointment as Prime Minister of former resistance fighter Xanana Gusmão, who leads...
...model,” he says. “With the CSA model, people join a farm, they have a very direct, personal relationship with the farm. It’s great that there’s a corporate trend towards organics because anything that poisons the earth less, that’s a good thing. As far as building a relationship to the earth, the weather, and the land and the farmer, that’s not going to happen with Whole Foods...
Peterson also says that, while Angelic Organics works to make organics affordable for the environmentally conscious of all socioeconomic levels, saving the earth has a price...
...cheap organic food,” Farmer John says. “What happens is that people with a special relationship to the earth start to get squeezed out...this is about building a relationship with the land. If all you have is something cheap from the grocery store, that’s not necessarily going to transform the planet...it’s going to require some economic resources to make it happen...
...Presidents fight so hard to win the office, but we often forget the price they pay to hold it. If Graham helped raise these men up, he also caught them after they returned to earth. "Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done," Graham said. "And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently...