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...experiences also sway us, goading our brains into assessing risks based on rapid whispers of positive or negative emotion. "If you look at genocide, we just don't react," says Paul Slovic, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon. "With 9/11 we lost 3,000 people in one day, but during 1994 in Rwanda 800,000 people were killed in 100 days - that's 8,000 a day for 100 days - and the world didn't react at all. Now you see the same thing with Darfur...
...Chaired by Dr. Paul E. Farmer, professor of social medicine at HMS and founding director of Partners in Health (PIH), the committee includes PIH cofounder Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the head of the department of social medicine at HMS and a former director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department; professors Dr. Myron E. “Max” Essex and Dr. Martin S. Hirsch, pioneers in HIV/AIDS research; and Dr. Chen...
...subsequent political secularization, we find a radically different Church these days. Once known as a dogmatic “rottweiler” while he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI is a changed man. And for the better. He seems to have adopted the best aspects of John Paul II’s revolutionary ecumenism and unheralded political subtlety. The trip to Turkey is a prime example of such policies...
...Still, Benedict's two prepared remarks in the Turkish capital - at first blush, at least - seemed so careful as to make one wonder if the famous hard-liner was going soft. After years of quietly, and then not-so-quietly, differentiating his approach to interfaith relations from Pope John Paul II's, the German Pope was sounding a lot like his predecessor. During Benedict's speech alongside Turkey's head of religious affairs Ali Bardakoglu, the Pope cited "mutual respect and esteem," "human and spiritual unity" and the common heritage of Islam and Christianity as ancestors of Abraham. In marked...
...Later, in a speech to foreign diplomats in the Turkish capital, Benedict was beginning to sound not only like his predecessor - but like himself. In the John Paul vein, he began a long reflection on war and violence by saying that "true peace needs justice, to correct the economic imbalances and political disturbances which always give rise to tension and threaten every society." This "root-cause" exploration of conflict is much different than Regensburg's search at the heart of religion for the source of violence. It is also a very different tone than his meeting with German Muslims last...