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...partisan element. Vester says she uses her blog to “generate discussion for the following day’s broadcast”—which makes her generally even-handed in presenting the facts of the day. I say, whenever a blog is used as a tool for personal enlightenment instead of as a tool for mass brainwashing, it’s on the right track...
...world may coexist peacefully, even though that may be several generations away. Human nature and history tell us that as long as there are adults teaching children that their religion and philosophy of life are unique-and that any other should be destroyed-violence will be perpetuated. The best tool to change the thinking of those radical groups is dialogue. When this fails and the groups resort to violence to impose their views, then drastic actions are necessary. The war in Afghanistan and the fight against the Basque terrorist group eta in Spain are justified. Once strong measures have been...
...Internet is a good tool for this for two reasons. First, it’s stronger than the phone networks. Huge amounts of money are spent yearly deploying routers and switches and fancy fiber cables all over the world, and in sending up geostationary satellites to rest above sub-Saharan Africa and beam Internet access (albeit at high cost) to Internet cafes in developing countries. And digitized voice itself is efficient: A standard telephone Internet connection over the same wire that carries a single analog conversation can carry five or six equivalent digital conversations with minimal perceived signal degradation...
...Urging some organization to divest themselves…is a powerful tool that sends a powerful message, but I don’t think you use it for any little problem that comes along,” Moseley said in an interview Friday. But, he said, “I do think the situation in Darfur deserves this...
Such experiences may ultimately be at least as important a part of our spiritual tool kit as the genes we're born with. A poor genetic legacy but lucky spiritual circumstances might mean more than good genes and bad experiences. "Fortune includes the possibility of divine grace as well as environmental influences," says Cloninger...