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...Fear on the Silk Road Whatever the truth about the alleged planned attacks, resentment is growing in Uighur-dominated areas like Khotan. After March 14 protests in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, turned bloody, the police arrested large numbers of Uighur men, apparently hoping to prevent an escalation of unrest, according to Khotan residents and activists outside China. But the detentions had the opposite effect and on March 23, an estimated 500-700 women in black dresses, headscarves and veils demonstrated during the weekly bazaar, a market that authorities say draws some 100,000 attendees. "They pulled placards calling for independence...
...people spam their friends even though most people hate it? I could claim I was motivated by altruism - proceeds from the ad revenue generated by the (Lil) Green Patch go toward saving the rainforest - but the truth is that I just wanted to grow my garden and see how many different kinds of plants I could send and receive. If I send 1,000 plants I earn a garden gnome. Cool! (By Green Patch's own statistics, the application has contributed a mere $15,650 toward its stated cause since launching in December...
...imaginative way, to a society which markets any number of recipes for human fulfillment." Said he: "I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth." Key to all this is prayer itself, which can even address the nagging vocations shortage in America by allowing a would-be priest to know that it is his destiny. "If they know how to pray, they can be trusted to know what to do with God's call...
...truth universally acknowledged, that an unhappily wed couple, having practically entombed themselves in a country house of little proximity to friends or family, must be in need of a good, tall, hard, stiff, drink...
...outcomes. However, keeping boots on the ground between the Tigris and Euphrates will certainly make a positive difference to the security of Iraqis. Removing the occupying force will render Obama’s bold claim that he will “end this war” sickeningly ironic. The truth is he will begin one, and a national bloodletting far more intimate and ferocious than anything thus seen in Darfur—or Iraq—will be all but inevitable. The salient question is whether Iraqi humanity or American war fatigue should be privileged in the nation?...