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...hard Bush supporters and Bible-toting Fundamentalists condemning to hell gays and pregnant teens. Are all Christians to be known only by the anti-gay-marriage and antiabortion agendas of some? Jesus served the poor and loved the neglected. His message was about caring for the destitute and the outcast. If Christianity in America is to be defined solely by what it stands against, then God help...
...Full of guilt over his family's feudal wealth, Caracera decides to give the money away and commences a search for deserving recipients. Eventually, he settles on two very different prot?g?s: a rising young tennis player and a boy prostitute who was the favorite of Caracera's late, outcast gay uncle. As the narrative proceeds, Caracera's good intentions pave a road to precisely the place they inevitably lead in proverb...
...only two decades, China has gone from Olympic outcast, with just five golds in 1988, to a powerhouse, with 28 in the 2000 Games. China's athletic czars have promised that 2008, when Beijing is host, will bring the nation an unprecedented medal trove. To better its chances, China has poured money into lesser-known sports like shooting that offer a bounty of medals. "If we plan very carefully, we could surpass Russia by 2008," boasts Wei Hongquan, a publicity official with China's State General Administration of Sport...
...where's Lonsdale now? Basking in glory as a giant of veterinary science? Well, no. In fact, he's an outcast, having recently been expelled from the Australian Veterinary Association for bringing the profession into disrepute. There's much to suggest that Lonsdale has become a victim of his own obsession. He quit practicing in 1992 to eke out a living researching and promulgating his theories. Ever since, he's hammered a simple message: commercial pet food - on which Australians spend $A1.3 billion a year - is bad for cats and dogs, which should be eating raw, meaty bones. Many vets...
...course also plans to study Louisa May Alcott herself. The daughter of an impoverished social outcast, Alcott has become as legendary as her books, although often mistakenly so. “Little Women is always represented as a typical American family, but neither the Marches nor the Alcotts were,” says Allgor...