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- Ah, The Power Of Bollywood
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  Mysore, India, April 30, 2007 --- My three-year-old daughter has three dolls and each of these “babies” has a different Daddy. Their names are ShahRukh Khan, Salman Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, and they’re no ordinary men: Each one is, in his own right, a mega star of the Indian screen, a sort of God in a country that’s, for good or for bad, completely and utterly Bollywood-obsessed.
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- The Olympics Suck
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  The Olympics suck. Wherever they are held, the local citizens are stuck with increased taxes for the always over-priced and underestimated costs. Activists in every region, be they environmental "stewards of the land activists" or social justice activists working to hang on to or improve access for poor people to income and or housing, are divided by The Olympics. The Olympics overwhelm these already beleaguered movements, and we are expected to just make the best of it.
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- I Spent Six Weeks At Yoga Camp
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  I’m parked in the drop-off circle at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Vancouver. It’s just past 8 a.m. on May 15, 2006. It’s a sunny day and I’m drinking my morning Starbucks with the sunroof open. I can barely swallow my bitter beverage, as my nerves have formed lumps in my throat. I think maybe my nerves are what led me to where I'm about to go.
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- Scientologists Helping On The Front Lines
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  In the wake of the Tsunami, my friend called his wife and informed her that he was going to take an immediate leave from his sales job for several weeks to travel thousands of miles to villages he’d never heard of to help people he’d never met in a culture he knew little about. That he was a member of my church’s Volunteer Ministers group meant only that I, as a scientologist, was fortunate enough to hear about his determination...
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- Lighting Up The Past And The Future
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  My father used to say that every problem can be solved by either a bigger hammer or more light. While the politicians swing their proverbial hammers scientists are lighting up not just the cosmic future, but also our cultural past. Much of what we know about extrasolar objects comes to us because of astronomical spectroscopy - ostensibly, the reading of light.
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- I Am The Happy Mother Of An Autistic Child
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  Before Adam was born, I knew he was going to be a boy. I had one of those lucid dreams in my first trimester where I actually “saw” Adam. My dreams were typical ones: picturing early mornings at hockey practice, cars, trucks, superheroes, and later a girlfriend hidden away behind a closed bedroom door. My only fear...
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- Those Who Demand Apologies From Canada Often Owe Apologies To Canada
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  A Conservative MP, who has been researching the Komagata Maru incident, has recently stated that Canada's federal government will commemorate the Komagata Maru incident, but probably not issue a formal apology. Time will tell what actually gets done, but this news indicates a bit of progress in thinking about "apologies."
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