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...Others are not so quick to dismiss. Says John Green, Senior Fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public LIfe, "There isn't a well-developed theology, a set of propositions. He appears to have traveled a lot in Latin America, but my colleagues say he doesn't have much of an international following. But really, we have no way of knowing whether or not it may ultimately spread beyond this." Thomas Tweed, Chair of the religion department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an expert in Miami's religious history, doubts, as do several other scholars...
...especially anything that could result in mandatory targets on emissions - even green Democrats in Congress will have a difficult time defending carbon controls at home. "It ought to be clear that the developed world will not move without something from the developing nations," says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change...
...launched a project that uses wood salvaged from homes destroyed by the hurricane to build new furniture for local residents that could also be sold in boutiques around the country. "The furniture - you touch it and you feel New Orleans," says Palleroni, whose first three prototypes - a minimalist pew, table, and set of nesting boxes - will be on display starting May 4 at the "Design for the Other 90%" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City...
Sources: Christian Science Monitor; Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee; China Daily; Financial Times; BBC; Jupiter Research; Pew Research Center for the People and the Press...
...like to see Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, for actually providing quality news. A recent Pew study shows the majority of Americans who know the most about current affairs get their news from these guys! I also nominate Ellen Miller, of the Sunlight Foundation, for providing the tools to professional and citizen journalists to see who is paying for what in Congress...