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That cost itself is also worth questioning. It is rather wasteful to buy bottled water at all if you have access to clean tap water, which 1 billion people in the world lack. Not only do the bottles, refrigeration and transportation generate a great deal of waste and pollution, but the money ($9.8 billion in the U.S. annually) could be better spent on projects like those that Ethos is supporting. According to a great article by Tom Standage in the New York Times, “clean water could be provided to everyone on earth for an outlay...
...Canterbury after the Asian tsunami, before calling his country to deeper prayer. The search for answersis part of the natural journey of faith; it is a mystery beyond our understanding, or a part of a larger plan, or the price we pay for free will, or God's tap on the shoulder, calling us to attention and mercy...
Even now, New Orleans has little power and undrinkable tap water, so supplies (generators, meals ready to eat, Doral cigarettes) must be delivered to the Corps each day--as often as several times a day--from a staging area 80 miles up the Mississippi. When I traveled with Thursday morning's eight-vehicle convoy, we started two hours late because the Corps workers each had to get tetanus and hepatitis shots before re-entering the suppurating city. Once under way, we had to stop twice: once to wait for a flatbed with a fan boat to join the convoy...
...addition, former aides say there has always been enormous pressure on White House officials to take only the most vital decisions to Bush and let the bureaucracy deal with everything else. Bush does not appear to tap sources deep inside his government for information, the way his father or Bill Clinton did, preferring to get reports through channels. A highly screened information chain is fine when everything is going well, but in a crisis it can hinder. Louisiana officials say it took hours for Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to reach Bush (although when she did, he talked to her soothingly...
...audiences, though, that music can be a lifeline. A Springsteen song can tap right into your daily existence. A U2 tune like Running to Stand Still, with a trancelike melody that slips over the transom of consciousness, insinuates itself into your dreams. Patty Klipper, from Parsippany, N.J., says, "First they opened my mind to their music. Then their music opened my mind to the world." The band's official fan magazine, called Propaganda and edited by their tour lighting director, is a neatly turned out publication that features the usual inside-band stuff as well as some unexpected calls...