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Some say global warming is killing the planet, but it is not a question of whether we will kill the planet. It is a matter of maintaining a survivable habitat for ourselves. Thousands of species are already in danger of extinction, which raises the question, Will we be able to adapt, or are we just another soon-to-fail genetic experiment...
...religious organizations were among the few "first responders" to respond well in the days after the storms hit. Since then, whether measured by volunteers mobilized, dollars donated, houses rebuilt or people counseled and consoled, national religious nonprofits like the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, Jewish federations, Lutheran Social Services and Habitat for Humanity; parent denominational bodies ranging from United Methodists to Southern Baptists; and local churches, synagogues and mosques have led the region's recovery efforts...
...organizations are now sagging. Unless Kramer's church gets $125,000 soon, its beg-and-borrow construction projects will grind to a halt. Scruggs too says that keeping the grass-roots rebuilding efforts going will require affirmative answers to fervent prayers for more money and volunteers. Catholic Charities and Habitat are short-staffed and stretched thin...
Skaggs had walked quite far, he realized now, in this pleasantly addled state. And that was part of the problem with his current life, he reckoned--his familiarity with almost every board and stone and step of Manhattan, his habitat by now so well known that even in a light opium haze he was able to wander for a mile, chatting silently with himself...
Bigelow's space habitat is admittedly more Budget Suites than Four Seasons right now, but his intent was never to be just an extraterrestrial hotelier. He has long talked of pharmaceutical companies doing research--particularly cancer research--in the microgravity environment of space. That Genesis even exists stuns the man behind TransHab's design, former NASA engineer William Schneider, who visits Bigelow Aerospace in North Las Vegas every few weeks to monitor progress on the full-size habitat, set for launch by 2010. "I went to humor him at first, but when I got there, he had built TransHab...