a turtle brought me enlightenment Life is good, really good. Sometimes I feel like the good karma train picked me up, and simply refuses to let me off. I have an amazing wife, a teenage son that makes me glow with pride, good health, a wonderful fam

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So what was going on? I want to investigate their revolutionary ideas to understand what set them in motion.-In this episode, I'm on the trail that most enigmatic philosophers, the Buddha, the wandering seeker of truth that challenged religious ortho

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By Gilbert Da Costa Abuja 16 February 2006 Nigerian authorities are being criticized for not doing enough to educate the public about the dangers of the bird flu virus. Chicken seller in Kano, Nigeria

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Separated by Civilization: Trans-Atlantic Impasse (1) The war in Iraq has made the Atlantic seem wider. But really it has had the effect of a magnifying glass, bringing older and more fundamental differences between Europe and the United States into

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What Is Enlightenment Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but b

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Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determinatio

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By Carolyn Weaver New York, NY 30 January 2007 watch Ayaan Hirsi Ali report As a little girl in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali was subjected by a grandmother to the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. The daughter of a dissident Somali poli

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In a quiet valley at Muir Beach, outside San Francisco, volunteer farmers till the soil, plant seedlings, and irrigate crops. They work alongside Zen monks and nuns, Western converts to an ancient Asian faith. This is where organic farmer and garden

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So we are moving to this democratization of information, and I've been in this field for quite a while. 我们已经进入了信息的民主化,我已经研究这方面很久了。 Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to h

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