Word: meaninglessness
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...Keys to Common Wealth In "Common Wealth," Jeffrey Sachs stated that the Millennium Development Goals are to cut extreme poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 [March 24]. Cutting poverty and hunger means more people consuming. Cutting disease means more people. Working toward these goals is meaningless as long as we do not reduce world population. People need to have fewer babies. Anything else produces an endless fight with no chance of winning. Rodger Skidmore, Sarasota, Florida...
...market found it. By the late 1960s, peace symbols were appearing on coffee mugs, miniskirts and ponchos and were dangling from chains around the necks of guys you would expect to see at the Playboy mansion. Duplicated endlessly as a hip fashion accessory, it threatened to devolve into a meaningless emblem of benign and groovy sentiment. It started looking corny, a kind of smiley face before there were smiley faces...
...pair of captain Stephanie Schnitter and junior Catriona Stewart also fell to the Herd. Their 8-2 loss gave Marshall the doubles point. The No. 2 pair of junior Beier Ko and freshman Samantha Rosekrans earned an 8-3 victory, but the outcome was meaningless to the match score. The Herd, with a 1-0 team lead, jumped out to a quick start in the singles portion claiming five out of the first six sets. The No. 5 and No. 6 matches finished quickly in straight sets. In the No. 5 slot, Stewart was ousted...
...Ferraro, for her part, hasn’t backed down from her comments, but she has jumped ship as Clinton’s “Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair,” a position that, while sounding meaningless, had the congresswoman campaigning on Clinton’s behalf. That said, her letter of resignation has all the contrite grace of a Molotov cocktail hurled into one’s former workplace. She writes, “I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself…The Obama campaign is attacking...
What frightens you? -Michael O'Brien, Chandler, Ariz.I can't say that there is anything specific that frightens me except these questions as to whether life has meaning and whether God is really with us. My worst fear is that the world is meaningless and I'm deluded-that I won't ever see people that I have lost again, my daughter who died when she was a little girl and my husband who died in 2002. I think all Christians face that fear...