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Prosperity adherents believe the right thoughts and speech, along with giving to the church, will prompt divine repayment in this life, with a return as high as $100 on each dollar handed up. On a small scale, Prosperity's positive thinking has sometimes energized the march of the poor into the middle class, but many Christians find it theologically and ethically perverse. Prosperity dominates American religious TV, and millions of adherents send millions of dollars to preachers they have never met. For Grassley, this might be fine if the ministers put all the money back into their mission work...
...Rather than making sure that the uninsured have a sufficient amount of choice, a single-payer system often forces everyone to have the same choice, which has an insidious flipside. In Canada this meant that no one could sacrifice more to obtain better or more prompt treatment. It was only in 2005 that the Canadian Supreme court struck down a Quebec law forbidding private insurance for medically necessary operations, claiming that it violated the defendant’s right to person...
...house arrest there, and her company recently launched a furniture line named Katonah. But when the company moved to trademark the name Katonah for the furniture and a long list of other household goods last year, residents fought back. A February meeting--which featured Martha-made cookies--didn't prompt a withdrawal of the application, so the Katonah Village Improvement Society (KVIS) and two businesses filed petitions with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "To the people of Katonah," said KVIS president Lydia Landesberg, "it felt like identity theft...
...satisfaction. The best thing to do is to reject the labels, reject the categorizations, and ignore the supposed “ramifications” of an event like the Lowell “riot.”So no, an event like the Lowell incident shouldn’t prompt a “real, frank discussion” about race, as Crimson editorial editor Weslie M. W. Turner ’10 called for in her comment, “Dancing Around Lowell Courtyard.” The people who believe that the conversation should be about race actually...
...India and China have argued against enforcing strict emission controls in their countries, on the grounds that these could hinder their economic growth and prompt a global economic slowdown. But the new IEA report says working with China and India on alternative energy sources and curbing emissions is a matter of global urgency...