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Christians are old hands at this kind of syncretism; the Christmas celebration is an absorption of the Roman festival of the Saturnalia. D.T. Niles, 53, general secretary of the East Asia Christian Conference and top spokesman for the Asian churches, put it neatly: "The Christian Gospel is a seed. If you sow it, you get a plant. The plant will bear the mark of both the seed and the soil. The trouble with the missionaries was that they brought Christianity to us as a potted plant. Now we are breaking the pot and putting the plant in our own soil...
...Women's Liberal Arts College," he said "sees it their job to 'cultivate' their students--like a gardner." The faculty discusses failures and drop-outs as failures in growth, or as the fruits of a "bad seed...
Hostile to the peasant and devoted to centralized authority, the Communist bureaucracy under Stalin sent out imperious orders telling the farmers when and what to plant, when and where to reap. Farm machinery, trucks, tractors, fertilizers and even seed were controlled by bureaus in Moscow that drove farmers to frenzy with missed deadlines and frustrating delays. When Khrushchev took over, he broke up the tractor stations and scattered the mechanized farm implements among individual collective farms. A massive effort was made to streamline the system by packing the bureaucrats off to the countryside. As a result, collective farms...
...freedom of the American farmer. For example, no one can plant wheat as a cash crop this year unless he has grown it in each of the last three years. And the acreage restriction plan encourages an exploitative attitude toward the government--give Orville your worst land and seed the rest more heavily. In sum, the role of the government in Freeman's paradise is that of a silly and meddlesome despot whose chief idols are underproduction, inefficiency, and waste...
...precede every peak of heavy rainfall on his charts. The prominent rain peak on Jan. 12 came 30 days after the Geminid meteor shower of Dec. 13. Other rain peaks came at about the same interval after other meteor showers. The explanation, said Bowen, was clear: meteor showers seed the top of the atmosphere with microscopic dust particles that make clouds form droplets big enough to fall to the ground as rain. The 30-day lag between the meteor showers and the rain, said Bowen, is accounted for by the time it takes the dust to filter to cloud level...