On May 23, the head of a Vatican delegation to the World Health Assembly on Wednesday called for universal health care coverage and an “integral” approach to health care that responds to a person’s spiritual needs. Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, head of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, stressed the need for …
Israel’s proposed Prawer plan refers to the “demographic threat” represented by the Bedouin community’s “accelerated rate” which is “sprawling uncontrollably … in the northern Negev.” Under this plan 30,000 of the 100,000 Bedouin who live in squalid and illegal encampments will be forced to relocate to developed lots in nearby farming, suburban or urban communities, …
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Yesterday, my wife and I visited a 90 year old friend in the geriatric ward of our nearby hospital. All the patients have available to them to get through a boring day in the ward (and to obliterate the memory of the last appalling meal) is television. This hospital requires you to buy TV time …
Smith & Wesson sales for the year ending in April hit a record of $588 million, a 43% rise on the previous year. Great news for the ecoonomy and for the safety of all who live in America! (for those who don’t do irony, this is meant tongue in cheek). We can therefore reasonably expect …
Pollster John Zogby identifies young Americans aged 18 to 29 as “First Globals” and “the most outward looking and accepting generation in American history”. They are cool about racial and sexual diversity, have open attitudes to the rest of the world, have travelled, have foreign friends and are conversant with international politics. They reject perpetual …
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