Cocaine use in America has dropped by almost half since 2006. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that .5 percent of the population used cocaine in 2011, compared to 1 percent of the population in 2006. This is largely due to the Colombian policy of targeting the labs and distributors, rather than …
KIVA.com is a San Francisco-based non-profit, micro-finance organization with a mission to alleviate poverty, allowing individuals to lend as little as $25 to help create opportunities for poor people in 69 countries. Since Kiva was founded in 2005 there have been 954,525 lenders and $450,382,425 dispersed in loans. Repayment rate is 99%. You don’t get …
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To The Times, London In the past, centuries elapsed between Pope Saints – St Pius V, died 1572, and St Pius X, died 1914. Now we are to believe that every pope since 1958 (1939 if one counts Pius XII) was of exalted sanctity. John XXIII, imminent canonisation; Paul VI, imminent beatification; John Paul I, …
To The Times I think it most unlikely that a change in the law will bring about a significant increase in the number of people making the decision to commit suicide, as this is a decision based on a number of causal factors, of which legality is not one. There will be no headlong rush, …
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Do not be afraid of the gods. They do not concern themselves with human problems. Even less do they have any effect on your income, your health, the behaviour of your children, or the recovery of your lost wallet. They neither reward or punish you in this world, or when you die. There is neither …
