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Although the series is based on sacred texts, the popularity of the videos rests largely on their irreverence. The parable of the Good Samaritan is recast with vegetables that wear shoes on their heads as the enemies of those that wear pots. Instead of David and Goliath, an asparagus fights a gigantic pickle. There are overt Monty Python references. When the videos first started appearing in Christian bookstores, college students working there on summer break were their biggest champions, playing them endlessly on the store monitors...
Whatever you do, don't panic. Things are looking up on the in-flight-emergency front. Doctors who come to passengers' aid used to worry about getting sued; their fears have lifted somewhat since the 1998 Aviation Medical Assistance Act gave them "good Samaritan" protection. And thanks to more recent legislation, flights with at least one attendant are starting to install emergency medical kits with automated defibrillators to treat heart attacks...
...year, the volunteers at the Good Samaritan Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya, were faced with a decision. With the money they had, they could either cut down on breakfast and lunch for the 115 former street children and AIDS orphans they cared for or discontinue their classes. When they decided to leave the decision to the children, the children chose education...
...benefit at the Carpenter Center last Sunday, the directors showed their work in progress, with half of the proceeds from the event going to finish the film and half to the Good Samaritan Home. The 20 minutes of loosely edited footage they have so far are full of images of uncomfortable everyday intimacy: a child’s head being shaven, a skinned rabbit hanging to be eaten, children standing around a murdered corpse. In the slums of a city where 100,000 children live on the streets, former street children talk with bruised toughness of their days sniffing glue...
Bell and Velez expect to complete Good Samaritan in June 2002 and hope to show it on television and at film festivals worldwide. While they have raised $9,000 to date, $100,000 will be needed in order to cover post-production costs. Information about donations to the film and the home is available at www.goodsamaritanfilm.com...