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...position as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund the program. There doesn't seem to be much time for failure. Better technology drove the world catch from 20 million tons in the 1950s to more than 85 million tons by the end of the 1980s, but the harvest has been shrinking throughout this decade. The declines are not simply a result of overfishing, but also of practices that destroy the ocean-floor habitats that feed and protect schools of commercial fish. Factory trawlers scare up schools by dragging heavy chains over the sea bottom, uprooting aquatic plants...
...harvest is even more bountiful on the Web, where everyone from Lutherans to Tibetan Buddhists now has a home page, many crammed with technological bells and whistles. Mormon sites offer links to vast genealogical databases, while YaaleVe' Yavo, an Orthodox Jewish site, forwards E-mailed prayers to Jerusalem, where they are affixed to the Western Wall. Two Websites are devoted to Cao Daiism, the tiny Vietnamese sect that worships French novelist Victor Hugo as a saint, and a handful probe the mysteries of Jainism, an Indian religion in which (as one learns on the Net) the truly faithful sweep...
This approach is especially problematic when one tries to incorporate rituals from specific religions into these universalist events. An excellent example is the ill-received Harvest Moon Festival that took place in Dunster House this October. The event involved rituals of harvest-time holidays of three religions. To be sure, these holidays share a great deal in common. But students of all three faiths were offended because the event mushed everything together and blurred important boundaries. This sort of format works for a content-less holiday party but is inappropriate when it serves as the basis for a substantive interfaith...
...event also could have included a run-through of the rituals and liturgy of Easter. The key is that the integrity of different rituals must be maintained. The experience of the Dunster House Harvest Moon Festival should not discourage future interfaith events; of all the attempts to deal with religion in the houses, it is the only one that has tried to tackle the issue in an honest and substantive way. It would have worked had it allowed time for each religion to present itself...
...Black humor prevails even in the darkest hours. When Julia joins her brother as a cancer patient, they start answering the telephone, "International House of Cancer." Just three days after Mike's death, Julia has to undergo a hysterectomy, and her doctor suggests that she might want to harvest a few eggs from her still-functioning ovaries, which could later be fertilized by a sperm donor and carried to term by a surrogate mother. "Oh great," she muses, "now I have to meet a guy and a girl...