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“Early Christians transformed the world by thinking different and living different, not by complaining about everybody else’s morals.”

—Alan Wilson

“‘You are destroying yourself,’ he cried. ‘You have the inclination to be alone and to dream and you are afraid of dreams. You want to be like others in town here. You hear them talk and you try to imitate them.’”

—Sherwood Anderson

“On earth we are wayfarers, always on the go. This means that we have to keep on moving forward. Therefore be always unhappy about what you are if you want to reach what you are not.”

—St. Augustine

“In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.”

—2 Chronicles 31:7 (ESV)

“There would so much less laughter in the world if evil people stopped talking.”

—MadPriest

“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry…”

—Ecclesiastes 8:15

“Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school? Did the factory help you grow? were you the maker or the tool?”

—Ewan MacColl

“Happiness happens when you are not thinking about it, when you are inhabiting your body comfortably…when you feel at peace with yourself and the world. When we live overprotective, overstimulated lives we expect more all the time, we find it hard to be unself-conscious and just do what we do; we overanalyse.”

—Rowan Williams

“You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate—poverty, disease, ignorance, et cetera….I think people are beginning to realize that you can’t have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think that you can have a stable and secure world.”

—Desmond Tutu

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

—Edward Abbey
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Tired of dying a little bit every day (31 May 2007)

311 prisoners serving life sentences in Italy have requested the return of the death penalty.

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Castro's Cuba can be a lesson to the world (31 May 2007)

Cubans’ life expectancy and infant mortality rate compare favorably with those of the United States (U.S. infant mortality ; U.S. life expectancy) at an annual cost of $251 per person.

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Done Surging (31 May 2007)

The last of the surge of 20,000 U.S. troops have arrived in Iraq, bringing the total number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq to 150,000.

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ACLU sues Boeing (31 May 2007)

Boeing is the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer and second largest defense contractor, and allegedly a provider of torture-related consulting services.

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It's never too soon to act to prevent discrimination (31 May 2007)

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch signed a law today authorizing same-sex civil unions.

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New Yorkers were told their air was safe to breathe after 9/11. It wasn't. (31 May 2007)

The New Statesman reports on toxic substances released after the 9/11 attack, in the wake of the first related death.

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Surface Computing (30 May 2007)

“A new technology called Surface Computing…lets people interact with computers using touch, hand gestures, and physical objects equipped with optical tags. The technology turns tabletops into dynamic canvases so users can, for example, browse their music libraries by dragging a finger across the horizontal display or maybe comparison-shop at an electronics store by simply plunking devices onto the screen.”

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Cindy Sheehan Resigns From Anti-War Movement (29 May 2007)

“Casey died for a country that cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.”

The BBC has more.

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Fancy a cup of tea? (29 May 2007)

“During the war we lost everything. We even lost our honor.”

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The Petition to Cage Hilton (28 May 2007)

“She provides hope to underachievers all over the world who believe a GED and alleged herpes is a solid foundation atop which to build their dreams.”

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Is it possible to be quoted yawning? (28 May 2007)

“A shockingly machiavellian possibility.”

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Scientists divided (28 May 2007)

Should scientists form alliances with religious moderates, or insult and marginalise them?

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"Aggressive lesbians and heterosexuals" banned (28 May 2007)

A pub owner in Melbourne has been granted permission by state courts to ban non-gay and non-male patrons.

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Again with the gay Teletubbies (28 May 2007)

“I noticed he was carrying a woman’s handbag. At first, I didn’t realise he was a boy,” says the Polish spokesperson for children’s rights. She’s ordered psychologists to study Tinky Winky to determine whether he’s a danger to children’s well-being.

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Domain name squatting is big business. (28 May 2007)

“What we’ve wanted to do, quietly, is amass the largest real estate position on the Internet, which we feel we have.”

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Mutant cows produce low-fat milk. (28 May 2007)

Scientists in New Zealand are breeding a herd of cows which produce low-fat milk, descended from a single cow with a natural mutation.

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Battlefield ethics (28 May 2007)

“Only 40 percent of marines and 55 percent of soldiers surveyed last year said they would report unit members who killed or wounded innocent civilians,” which means that U.S. marines are more willing to cover up a murder than MBA students are to cheat on a quiz.

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A funeral pyre for thought. (28 May 2007)

To make the point that “not reading a book is as good as burning it,” a Missouri used book store owner began burning books from his collection which he was unable to give away. “There are segments of this city where you go to an estate sale and find five TVs and three books,” a customer explains.

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People who cherish trans-Atlantic friendship must talk about disarmament (28 May 2007)

“Since 2001, global arms expenditure has increased by a quarter. In 2005, it amounted for the first time to the inconceivable sum of $1 trillion, 46 percent of which was spent by the United States alone….”

“The United States has so far invested over $100 billion in the development of a defensive shield. That is a huge sum which, spent differently, could have achieved more for the security of the United States.”

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We have our own style of democracy and we are proud of it (27 May 2007)

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is expected to win confirmation in todays presidential referendum.