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CONTEXT In light of recent health and safety scares regarding Chinese-made food and products, a U.S.-based company called Food for Health International has announced plans to put "China-free" stickers on its goods. The subtext: These products won't make you sick or have harmful contaminants like melamine...
...eulogizing Diana as the "people's princess," skillfully aligned himself with the politics of emotion. It was that sort of time--one when politicians proved their authenticity not just by being in touch with their (and your) feelings, but also by telling you until you were sick of it just how in touch with their bloody feelings they were. Less than a year earlier, after all, Bill Clinton, the hugger in chief, had crushed poor Bob Dole, a war hero who had made a whole career out of keeping his emotions, and his physical pain for that matter, well hidden...
...whatever You wish - as You wish - as long as you wish. [But] why can't I be a perfect Loreto Nun - here - why can't I be like everybody else. [Jesus:] I want Indian Nuns, Missionaries of Charity, who would be my fire of love amongst the poor, the sick, the dying and the little children ... You are I know the most incapable person - weak and sinful but just because you are that - I want to use You for My glory. Wilt thou refuse? - in a prayer dialogue recounted to Archbishop Ferdinand Perier, January...
...Still, car ownership is likely to continue to rise in countries such as India for the same reasons that Western cities with great mass transit are bumper-to-bumper anyway: people buy cars for convenience and status. Kant of Tata Motors says he's sick of going to parties in India and in the West and listening to "these rich people ask about congestion and pollution and global warming. I ask them, 'Sir, will you stop using your car and start taking the bus?' People should be thanking us our cars are small. Let all those SUVs in America...
...sentry duty. One Lieut. Colonel recalls that during the Gaza eviction he had a mid-ranking officer whose family was among those being moved out. "I let him go back and help his family," he says. Many religious Zionist soldiers were never disciplined when they called in sick during the February 2006 operation to remove nine families from a bleak hilltop known as Amona...