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...morality was built on a sincere belief in leading a virtuous life, serving the country he loved and hoping to achieve salvation through good works. That led him to make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well. As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine...
...thousands of tiny villages around the globe, Western Union serves as the main link to the global economy. About 100 miles south of Mexico City, in a valley framed by towering pre-Columbian ruins, sits Coatetelco, population 15,000, which has a beauty parlor but no bank. A few people grow maize, chilies and fruit, but remittances--mostly from agricultural or construction workers in Georgia and the Carolinas--account for a staggering 90% of the villagers' incomes. Patricio, 49, who stopped working in the U.S. three years ago, says sending money to Coatetelco has become more convenient and less expensive...
...those who worked overnight shifts at least three times a month for 15 years were 35% more likely to develop colon cancer than those who worked only days. Authors of the study, published last week in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, think the increased risk may be linked to lowered levels of melatonin, which usually reaches peak production in the body in the middle of the night; nighttime exposure to light can dramatically reduce that production. The hormone is believed to have anticancer properties, but researchers say more study is needed before a link can be confirmed...
...calls and e-mails, Yusuf was able to throw an electronic net over the Karachi neighborhoods where terrorists and some of Pearl's kidnappers lurked. "Al-Qaeda isn't like a social club," he says. "They don't have a posted membership list." What he did find was a link between al-Qaeda and two virulent Sunni sectarian groups?Lashkar Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad?which had trained in Afghan camps alongside Osama bin Laden's holy warriors. The two groups, in turn, were mixed up in the Karachi underworld. Often, says Yusuf, it was the criminals who rented...
...taken her best farmland. A website run by the Procuratorial Daily, the newspaper of China's prosecutor's office, last year published a review of her case in which doctors were warned not to comply with police seeking expedient ways of incarcerating undesirables. "Medical staff are an essential link in the chain of evil that produces these abuses, and this should not be forgotten when allocating blame and punishment," the review stated. So far, no punishment has been allocated. Late last month, the World Psychiatric Association took China to task in an unusual statement calling on the country to allow...