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Some vision of new political systems is missing from your report. Revolutionary changes in information and communication technology will convert our world into an e-world and propel political systems in the direction of democracy. In a cyberspace equipped with intelligent tools, legislation can be effected by electronic referendums. The right to participate can be granted to every citizen. The principle of "no law without the right to vote on it" could be a practical concept within reach. ANDRZEJ KACZMARCZYK Warsaw...
...people in practical terms; there are only about 100 female pastors among the 40,000 churches that make up the denomination. But its message - which will be accompanied by affirmations of Southern Baptist distaste for racism, homosexuality, pornography, abortion and mercy killing - is unmistakable. "This week's vote will propel previously de facto attitudes into the realm of church law," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "It's another step toward a complete conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist convention...
...stalwarts gathered that night in Radcliffe Yard to raise glasses of champagne in salute to the Radcliffe that had been a College for 120 years and, to the sound of a tolling school bell, meet the Institute that is supposed to propel Radcliffe into the 21st century...
...their first trip to Nationals, Rechul and Odom turned in terrific performances that will propel the program into next season...
...latest technologies, are likely to embrace the future as a dashing (if unknown) stranger who's appeared at our door to whisk us into a strange new world. Those who travel, though, are more likely to see rising tribalism, widening divisions and all the fissures that propel ever more of the world into what looks like anarchy. Fully 97% of the population growth that will bring our numbers up to 9 billion by the year 2050 will take place in developing countries, where conditions are scarcely better than they were a hundred years ago. In many cases, in fact, history...