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...Innamincka, Leon Cartledge has his fingers crossed for the pioneering project to succeed. He thinks a hot-rocks power plant could draw curious tourists to sample his beer and oysters. Throw in free electricity, and "a business like this might even stand to make a profit...
Naughton's next tea leaf came last fall when a relatively moderate bishop defeated Rwandan hardliner Emmanuel Kolini to succeed Akinola as head of the African Anglican group CAPA. "Even within Africa," argues Naughton, "we saw the emergence of a large group of bishops who disagree with Episcopal Church on homosexuality but think Akinola and his American friends present a far greater threat to the Communion...
...Blair Wish Project Tony Blair's commitment to a rapprochement of the world's great faiths through interfaith dialogue cannot succeed [June 9]. The world's great religions - and why exclude rationalist humanism from such a dialogue, when it takes as much faith to be an atheist as it does to believe in a deity? - may possibly have the common denominator of desiring the charitable amelioration of the human condition, but that is where the commonality ends. The various belief systems are committed to truth claims which are not logically compatible. Incommensurability of theory necessarily leads to incompatibility in practice...
...most evocative patriotic song is America the Beautiful, in which an ideal like brotherhood doesn't even get mentioned until the second-to-last line, well after rhapsodic references to waves of grain and fruited plains? "We've defined an American version of what it means to succeed," says neuroscientist Randy Seeley, associate director of the Obesity Research Center at the University of Cincinnati Medical School. "And a big part of that is access to an environment in which there is a lot of food to be consumed...
Driven to Succeed...