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...kitchen. Making money is part of the point. As with any sort of fund, you should look for low expenses, experienced management and a good track record. Calvert Social Investment Equity, a large-cap growth-plus-value fund that screens companies in seven areas, has fared better than the vast majority of large-cap blended funds over the past five years (although it has fallen behind the pack recently). Ariel Fund, a small-cap value fund, isn't nearly so stringent about screening but does exclude companies that focus on making or selling tobacco, generating nuclear energy or manufacturing handguns...
...need protection under the Endangered Species Act. That was welcome news for the Partnership for the West, a coalition of ranching and energy interests that mounted a fierce yearlong lobbying campaign against federal involvement. "A sage grouse listing would be used by radical environmentalists to take control of vast public and private lands," says spokesman Jim Sims. "It would be the spotted owl on steroids...
...centuries, Christians expended vast interpretive energies on that last phrase. Long-standing arguments between Catholics and Protestants revolved around whether Mary inherently possessed the grace enabling her to accept the divine will (making her more worthy of Catholic-style reverence) or was granted it on an as-needed basis. These days, however, some feminist readers like Vanderbilt University's Amy-Jill Levine, editor of the forthcoming Feminist Companion to Mariology, are more interested in what might be called Mary's feistiness. After all, Levine points out, the handmaid line does not follow immediately upon the angel's tidings that "thou...
...spirit of this week’s issue, we’ve turned the spotlight on our bedeviling but beloved brick building on Plympton St., headquarters of the vast Hebrew conspiracy to take over the media. Merry Christmas...
...Soon she will be joined by others from Tawila. Once a bustling caravan stop, Tawila is now a ghost town, the vast majority of its 55,000 inhabitants having fled. They dot the road to Al Fashir, on donkey and on foot, desperate to cover the 40 miles of desert scrub before their food runs out or they are attacked. Those that remain are too old or sick or poor to leave, and food is running short...