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...thing about poor people in general, their lives are all within arms length, right? If you're rich, you can reach back into history, you can reach out into outer space, you can do all sort of stuff if you're rich. And if you're middle class, you can at least imagine it. But poor people, what do they have? They have sex, and then they have children. And they have names for those children. And all kinds of hopes, and maybe despair, is tied up in the sex, and then later on in the naming of the children...
...There’s this personal commitment and this sort of realism about problems faced, mixed with optimism about the potential to address them, that is really inspiring,” Bok said. “The real benefit we’ll get is the opportunity to have sustained interaction...
...Silva promptly dismisses. “There was this simple routine that our whole group did together, and then Christine and I transferred off into our wheel routine. She’s a phenomenal teacher. She made it really fun in an acrobatic sort...
...breathing literary life into Hosea, Steinberg asks several basic questions: What makes a person into a prophet? What character traits would one possess, and what sort of life would lead to such a calling? In Hosea’s case, the Bible is silent on his personal formation, allowing Steinberg a canvas upon which to freely project his own answers...
Hypothetically, how could some sort of military clash come about? It wouldn't first be open war. China and India are building up their interests in conflict-prone and unstable states on their borders like Nepal and Burma - important sources of natural resources. If something goes wrong in these countries - if the politics implode - you could see the emergence of proxy wars in Asia. Distrust between India and China will grow and so too security concerns in a number of arenas. It's an important scenario that strategic planners in both Beijing and Delhi are looking at. (See TIME...