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Have these people no understanding??of the negative effects of having so many children? Our planet is choking to death because it's overburdened by people, especially in the developed world. One Western child uses 30 times the resources a child born in a Third World country does. If wealthy people are going to have larger families, they should be taxed according to how much they burden the overall system. Instead, we now give credits for having children. If you love children and want a big family, adopt someone already here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...It was understanding??that people had conflicting thoughts about Schiavo and hesitated to take sides. I relate to those who wanted Schiavo to live because of her family's grief and the belief that she might be helped by advances in medical science. Harder to comprehend was the passion of some who were eager for her death. Without a living will as proof of Schiavo's desires and in light of her parents' willingness to take full responsibility for her, should the life-or-death decision have been left to a husband who had moved on and started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 2005 | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...appreciates this potential more than Good, who sees immunology as the key to understanding???and ultimately controlling?almost all diseases that afflict man. "Understanding the immune system will enable us to do far more than treat allergies or immunodeficiency diseases, or to control cancer," says Good. "It will enable us to understand the basic processes of life." Good will not predict when this millennium will occur; immunologists are still groping for answers to questions that have puzzled scientists for centuries. But there is little doubt that they are groping in the right direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward Cancer Control | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...mystical, the occult and even Satanism before they drew once again on familiar roots. One of the nation's successful young evangelists, Richard Hoag, 24, believes that many of his youthful converts see Jesus as a marvelous father figure. "The kids are searching for authority, love and understanding???ingredients missing at home. Jesus is what their fathers aren't." Adds Baptist Pastor John Bisagno: "I'm amazed at how many people I've counseled who have never heard their fathers say 'I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Rebel Cry: Jesus Is Coming! | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...deciding what to do tomorrow morning, should be so much at home in the 19th century. However, states and statesmen were more predictable during that period, and the margin for error was a little greater. He is not alone in arguing that the U.S. could benefit from reading?and understanding???history. "The pre-eminent task of American foreign policy," he has said, "ought to be to get some reputation for steadiness. Whether we are dangerous to our enemies one can argue, but we are murder on our friends. We will not get steadiness unless we can have a certain philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KISSINGER: THE USES AND LIMITS OF POWER | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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