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01/07/2009
PEACETALK: An open letter to the new GRP Panel negotiating peace with the MILF. By Bong Montesa (Minda News)
Let me begin by offering my profoundest congratulations to the Chairman and the members on their recent appointments to the government negotiating panel for talks with the MILF. I assure the panel this is going to be a great challenge and, as I may add, an exciting one!
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01/06/2009
OPINION: A Global Perspective (The Dartmouth)
While I was on a Birthright trip to Israel this past December, a six-month ceasefire agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians ended, and violence ensued. Almost immediately, shells and rockets from Gaza started falling into the neighboring Israeli towns. Although nobody was killed, 60 rockets fired in one day is hardly a minor event. Incidentally, there were eight Israeli soldiers ...
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01/04/2009
Before Oregon, creation stories sprang from the land (The Oregonian)
Torsten Kjellstrand/The OregonianMount Hood rises out of the forest to 11,249 feet and defines the landscape in much of Oregon, whether you see if from east, west, north or south. In the beginning, there was no state of Oregon but...
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01/02/2009
Spiritual Reflections: Roe vs. Wade needs to join failed ideologies (The Savage Pacer)
By Dan Miller, Spritual Reflections On Jan. 20, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. This occasion will not mark the death of racism in our land. It will, however, betoken a crucial stage in the sluggish uprooting of racism’s influence upon this nation. read more
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01/02/2009
Spiritual Briefs: Jan. 3, 2009 (Naples Daily News)
 
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12/31/2008
ANALYSIS: Top 10 news stories in 2008 (BPNews.net)
Posted on Dec 31, 2008 | by R. Albert Mohler Jr. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The year 2008 began with the anticipation that history would be made, and on that count the year certainly did not disappoint. Nevertheless, the year unfolded with more surprises than usual.
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12/30/2008
Apartheid legacy still looms (The Natal Witness Group)
CAPE TOWN — The uneven matric results for 2008 show that despite a drastic curriculum change, South African education is still plagued by problems rooted in the apartheid era, observers said yesterday.
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12/30/2008
A "World Views" farewell (part two) (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dear "World Views" Readers: Today's item is the last one that will appear here. After the publication of today's column, this regular, daily feature of S.F.Gate , the website of the San...
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12/29/2008
Elaine Chao defends her Labor legacy (Los Angeles Times)
Critics say the department has failed in its regulatory functions during her tenure as secretary. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is the only Cabinet member to serve during President Bush's entire presidency, through nearly eight years marked by terrorism, Hurricane Katrina and long-running wars, including ideological battles.
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12/29/2008
Lynsey Hanley: A better life shouldn't have to mean leaving your peers (Guardian Unlimited)
Lynsey Hanley: Social mobility can prove painful for young people in deprived areas, where the price of aspiration is breaking with the group
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  • As the World Turned - History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
  • A Brief History of Cosmology - A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
  • Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis - Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
  • The Copernican Revolution - A timeline with links.
  • The Copernican Revolution - Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
  • Cosmology since 1900 - A timeline with links.
  • Flat Earth Historical Thinking - History of the belief that the earth is flat.
  • History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology - Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
  • History of Cosmology - A history of our conceptions of the universe from ancient origin myths to the frontiers of modern science. UC Berkeley course syllabus and lecture notes.
  • History of Cosmology - An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
  • Inventing the Solar System - Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
  • The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 - The
  • Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology - The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
  • God answers prayers - YES: He gives you what you want; NO: He gives you something better; WAIT: He gives you His best in His time...
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