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...States, the saints were the focus of his talk to young people and seminarians in Yonkers, New York. "Fix your gaze on our saints. The diversity of their experience of God's presence prompts us to discover anew the breadth and depth of Christianity," Benedict said. "Let your imaginations soar freely along the limitless expanse of the horizons of Christian discipleship. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder...
...world food prices soar, leaving millions of the world's poor unable to afford staples they lived on just one year ago, the world's stopgap measure against extreme hunger also finds itself short of food. The WFP, the U.N.'s food-aid agency, headquartered in Rome, had budgeted $2.9 billion this year to buy food and distribute it to more than 70 million people worldwide. By late March, however, high food and fuel prices meant that those same planned operations were expected to cost an extra $500 million. Just one month later, says WFP executive director Josette Sheeran...
...Richards,” his delivery calls to mind the vitality of R.E.M.’s late-’80s albums like “Life’s Rich Pageant.” The melodies have a perfect mix of ringing and urgency, the aforementioned harmonies soar to heavenly levels, and the songs rock from start to finish. The best track, “Supernatural Superserious,” sounds like a lost ’90s classic. Despite its dopey title, the verses’ chiming guitar refrain and the infectious chorus make it the catchiest...
...combat the abject poverty facing many farm families in the Great Depression, times have changed dramatically. In 2006, average farm household income was $76,654, 17 percent higher than the average U.S. household income. In 2008, the disparity is projected to grow even larger, as average farm incomes soar to a whopping $90,000. Farmers note that prices will likely fall once again, just as the crop booms of the ’70s were followed by lean years in the early ’80s, but cyclical market fluctuations are a feature of nearly any business. Government policies have...
...peroration about the importance of hope. The setup always seemed a bit defensive to me - an attack on the pundits and party elders who thought he was too idealistic, a "hopemonger" who needed to have the "hope boiled out of me." Having knocked down that straw man, he would soar through an American history of hope, from the colonists to civil rights marchers. It was the core of his message: patriotism defined as change, the creation of a more perfect union. And so it was rather shocking to hear Obama speak - stripped down and hope redacted - in Wilkes-Barre...