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...religion--man's answer to his spiritual hunger. Nourish the soul, find truth, find the meaning, find God. All religions seek to lead people through these searches to the ultimate answer. Unfortunately, along the way many religions, including Mormonism, have fallen prey to the "God in a box" syndrome--explanations that reduce the infinite to what mortal minds can comprehend and, possibly, equal. They can call this religion, but spirituality or faith, never! NANCY SIGLER Laguna Niguel, Calif...
...with nitrogen and phosphate washes into rivers and then sweeps into the sea, forming a muddy plume that may be hundreds of miles long. As this nutrient-rich water flows over a reef, it stimulates the growth of all kinds of algae--including the microscopic diatoms and dinoflagellates that nourish such reef animals as the crown-of-thorns starfish. In recent years hordes of these coral-devouring starfish have infested Australia's 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, and soil-borne nutrients are at least partly to blame...
...think that nature is a vast storehouse that can be drawn on and then used as a disposal basin," said Tom Hayden, who represents the state's 23rd district. "We have a responsibility to restore and nourish the earth...
...democracy cannot be formed in four years, or even a decade. Hong Kong has lived a charmed life; paradoxically, British rule has meant freedom without democracy, a fact masked by the colony's enormous prosperity. The little taste of participatory government that Patten has brought to Hong Kong cannot nourish a democratic culture in the face of a takeover by a country that is neither democratic nor free; without the British model in place, Hong Kong may even find its long-held freedoms eroding, if only from neglect...
...time or another, and most people find some way to cope. Or, if they don't, a trusted friend or family member may persuade them to forget the past and get on with their lives. But if they cannot shake off the sense of humiliation, they may instead nourish their grudges and start a mental list of all the injustices in their lives. Rather than take a critical look at themselves, they blame their troubles on "the company," for example, or "the government" or "the system...