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...here's the odd thing. Nearly 80 years after his death, it is Wilson's belief in peace, democracy and prosperity through trade and free markets that has come to define the aspirations of humankind. Communism and fascism, once rivals to liberal democracy, now seem no more than horrifying museum pieces. Even more surprisingly, a sort of muscular Wilsonianism has found a welcoming home in the White House. Bush, like Wilson, wants to remake the world...
...matter how powerful humankind thinks itself to be, the forces of nature have a way of asserting themselves, bringing with them both awe and terror. Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder...
...share a common "father" fighting over the interpretations of Abraham's life. I was born a Hindu, but I have no religious rituals, no religious stories to believe in. I have been brought up to be God-fearing and good, kind and honest. I believe in the welfare of humankind. If there were no religions, and only empathy, altruism and humanism to lead the way, the world would truly be an enlightened place. PREETI KUMAR Harlington, England...
...have not yet been doomed to extinction. The list of 201 species includes the cerulean warbler, which has an Appalachian habitat threatened by mining, and the painted bunting, whose brushland habitat has been gobbled up by sprawl and farming. The decrease in birds isn't good news for humankind, says the Audubon's chief ornithologist, Frank Gill, since birds are indeed the canaries in the global coal mine. "Birds are one of our best indicators of environmental and other problems that can affect humans as well," Gill says. The West Nile virus, he notes, turned up in birds before...
Slowly, however, as humankind found itself in uncharted territory with respect to energy use and population growth--and in particular the natural desire of all people to share the prosperity so far enjoyed by only a few--we have begun to recognize the perils inherent in the prevailing model of development. As forests have been felled and aquifers drawn down; as the atmosphere has filled with toxins and the oceans have been fished to exhaustion; and as the climate itself has begun to talk back, holding up a mirror to our profligate ways, the world has seen the dangers...