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Other youth ministers caution against the tendency to boil Scripture down to a series of updated commandments about not listening to pop music or not hanging out with friends who swear. Gregg Morris, an Episcopal youth worker, remembers being an adolescent in an evangelical congregation. The stricter teachings kept him acting Christian outwardly, but God seemed like more of a "celestial bean counter." If God becomes just another parent to rebel against, says Morris, then the 13-year-old's spiritual journey may end before it even begins. Morris' search for a more inclusive Christian curriculum for adolescents...
...corrupt young Muslims with drugs and money. It warns the "people of Pattani state" to reject all efforts of reconciliation by non-Muslims. "A dog is still a dog, even if it befriends a goat," it says. "People read the leaflets and then destroy them," says a Muslim aid worker in Yala. "Nobody wants to be caught with one in their house or at a checkpoint." The militants threaten death to anyone who destroys their leaflets...
...skyrocketing property prices is the group composed of the ruling ?lite and the wealthy. They made fortunes in a very short span. But most middle-class Pakistanis are left with only ruined hopes. In the wake of rising inflation, a lackluster job market and stagnant salaries, a salaried worker can never think of buying an apartment or a modest house in his lifetime. Millions will have to forgo that dream. The gap between rich and poor is reaching dangerous proportions. It is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. The government has simply not awakened to the plight...
...Revolution" [June 27] offered a unique perspective on my country's political and social changes. "Small World, Big Stakes" made the point that instead of politicians and scholars, the most important figures for China's future and its relationship with the U.S. are people like the textile worker you highlighted, Liu Li. Today ordinary people like Liu do not fear uncertainty or economic and social instability. These very uncertainties have created opportunities for China's Lius to escape from their humble social and economic background and realize their hopes. There is a degree of freedom of speech here today...
...most famous cases as a corporate lawyer, Roberts represented Toyota and won a major victory for Big Business against the Americans with Disabilities Act, when the Supreme Court ruled that an assembly-line worker with carpal tunnel syndrome wasn't covered by the antidiscrimination law. Still, as a judge, Roberts has come down on the side of workers, ruling in favor of an employee who accused Washington's transit authority of having fired him because he suffers from bipolar disorder. He upheld the district court ruling because he said the transit authority received federal funds and thus was obliged...