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...soon to know if the science that was meant to help the farming industry has instead dealt it a new blow. Scientists are already investigating what Reynolds described as "a small number" of possible outbreaks elsewhere. Farmers and tourist chiefs pray these tests will prove negative, but are already set to suffer. A ban on exports of livestock is in place and the European Union and individual countries will introduce further restrictions on British imports. Meanwhile scare stories about FMD are beginning to circulate. The disease very rarely affects humans, but despite such assurances in 2001, many visitors canceled...
Grossman cites the lord of the rings author J.R.R. Tolkien and The Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis as Christian writers who suffused their work with religion. He then complains that Harry Potter has no one to pray to because Rowling has deleted God. Grossman ignores the Christian themes of love and free will that Rowling makes explicitly clear are Harry's only means of salvation...
...news is that rather than strengthening Pakistan's progressive middle class (the people we'd like to eventually supplant him) he has strengthened its Islamist radicals (the people we pray never do). Pakistani generals have a tradition of promoting jihadist militants, to use either as a club against regional enemies like India or as an excuse for retaining power. And Musharraf is no exception. In 2002, he manipulated parliamentary elections to hand Islamists control of two Pakistani provinces that border Afghanistan. By undermining Pakistan's large, relatively secular parties, he has left mosques and madrasahs as the most potent vehicles...
...over restoring full democracy to Pakistan, and his drawn-out dispute with the popular Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Now his religious and political opponents are using the Red Mosque siege as fresh ammunition against him. "Our blood," Ghazi said, "will be the first step toward Islamic revolution." Most Pakistanis pray he will be proved wrong...
...Internet connection, “I love working with the AIDS orphans, but it's sad. One group of kids has no toys and one group is living in tin shacks. They are cold and have water dripping in on them. We are building new housing for them. Please pray as we raise money for the project...