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...idea. But with Australia and New Zealand seeking closer engagement in the Pacific, many of the region's respected voices feel a guest-worker scheme is ripe for a trial. "We have a lot of people looking for work, and they are not lazy," says Rick Hou, governor of the Central Bank of Solomon Islands. "Australia and New Zealand don't have enough workers to pick fruit and work on farms. It's a perfect fit. If the respective governments could find a way to do it, it would be a win-win solution." The Australian farming lobby agrees...
...work to "populate heaven" via conservative Roman Catholic giving; the Lewis-abetted faith of National Human Genome Research Institute leader Francis Collins has proved that you can believe in both evolution and God. Other admirers have included Pope John Paul II, Greek Orthodox Bishop-theologian Kallistos Ware and megapastor Rick Warren...
...help devise practical solutions to the health crisis in the developing world. The conference is organized around 10 "big questions," from "Why do 10 million children have to die?" to "How do we prepare for the next plague?", and includes among its speakers Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Kofi Annan, Rick Warren and Madeleine Albright...
...once in our wretched lives, all of us geeks were right! Rick McCallum really is trying to kill the “Star Wars” legacy!In a national conference call conducted last week, the producer behind the three “Star Wars” prequels finally announced theultimate aim of his nefarious plans: “I’m hoping that, in 20 or 30 years, nobody remembers ‘Star Wars’; that it was just a blip.” Arm the message-boards, fanboys—the Dark Lord has been...
...rooted in interpretations of the Bible. Interracial intimacy was seen as unnatural. Blacks were put forth as filthy sub-humans who wanted to muddy white bloodlines and thus destroy the goodness of the white race. Race mixing was akin to bestiality. Sound familiar? "Defenders" of marriage, from Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to Justice Antonin Scalia to Pope Benedict, have tossed out arguments just like these in their quest to keep same-sex couples from the altar...