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Mahler is usually associated with sprawling works, including his "Symphony of a Thousand." A reduced version of his heavenly song from his Fourth Symphony is on the opening-night program for the 40th season of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Michael Vick wants to work with an unlikely ally — the Humane Society of the United States — on a program aimed at eradicating dogfighting among urban teens.
Americans are hunkering down and saving more. For a recession-battered economy, it couldn't be happening at a worse time.
Four years after their last report card on roads, water and other public works, the nation's civil engineers on Wednesday gave efforts to repair infrastructure a "D," saying that little had improved while repair costs had grown by more than $500 billion.
Once you've decided to get a dog and have researched what sort of pup suits your lifestyle, check out the Humane Society of the United States’ guidelines on .
Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday that modern culture is pushing God out of people's lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities.
Apparently, the warning applies to everyone, from college student Danielle Gonzales to Barack Obama’s adviser, Valerie Jarrett: Don’t walk and text at the same time. Gonzales, a 19-year-old sophomore at San Diego State University, admits she’s stumbled more than once while sending texts on the street. “I’ve definitely tripped over things sometimes like the little cracks in the ground,” she said. “I have to remember to look up.”
Japan will urge citizens to carry their own chopsticks instead of using disposable ones and go shopping with their own bags instead of using plastic ones, in a bid to more than halve the garbage it produces.
It was a sight to behold: Thousands of protesters massed on the streets of one of China's most prosperous cities, demanding that construction of a chemical plant close to their homes be stopped.
How Will Religion Evolve? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.comDoes religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a tradi …
By Muhammad Aftab Afzal The Lahore traffic police has declared the Main Boulevard in Gulberg, a business center in the heart of the city, and four other roads as a 'model car-only roads' ordering his staff to divert motorcycles, rickshaws and bicycles to the service lanes.
What went wrong? Feminism and freedom from the prison of gender rolesI contend that most of the unnecessary suffering in human life, the suffering due to clinging, aggression, and bewilderment rather to birth, aging, sickness, and death, is due to the prison of gender roles, which is why freedom from that prison, not new reformed gender roles, is …
The Fear Of "Offending" Is Now A Threat To All Of UsDespite all the exhortations to report suspicious behavior in a post-9/11 world, we have seen the creation of a perilous climate in which the fear of offending has overtaken common sense even when lives are at stake.
"The banking crisis and MPs' expenses scandal revealed that there is barely a distinction between legality and morality."The Evolution of the God Gene Religion has the hallmarks of an evolved behavior, meaning that it exists because it was favored by natural selection. It is universal because it was wired into our neural circuitry before the ancestral human population dispersed from its African homeland.
India's eunuchs, transsexuals, recognised as 'others' The formal recognition, confirmed by the election commission, answers a longstanding demand by the eunuch and transgender community, known as hijiras, who are believed to number up to six million.
We have all met them: people who seem pretty enthusiastic in what they are doing. They usually start something new (like DIY builders) but somehow never finish, before quickly moving on to something else, or they take ages to do it in order to have everything 'perfect' first.
Over the past couple decades this great nation and the world has seen the taken of age of epoch of the internet with a plethora of avenues and means for livilyhood and communication.We have seen economic collapse of all including morals and the inevitable destruction of society …
U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.
Girl 'cried rape after living out fantasy of having sex with two strangers'This is a good thing, and good because it may be the beginning of making it happen often, i.e. when it should be.
Technology not causing social isolation: Pew study WASHINGTON: Contrary to popular belief, technology is not leading to social isolation and Americans who use the Internet and mobile phones have larger and more diverse social networks, according to a new study.
If you are not happy alone, you will not be happy in a relationshipif you are not happy alone, you will not be happy in a relationship; when I say happy alone I don't mean, happy to be single so that you can go out and date a bunch of people,(single and ready to mingle) I mean truly content and balanced by yourself.
Bracing For The Rape ApologyPost about media and social response to rape, rape victims, and rapists.
Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun - CNN.comGreat article on how privacy is changing due to Social Media
The Honeymoon Phase of Social MediaA thought piece on how Social Media may just help a new social revolution; but it's too early to tell how.
Just to be clear, I'm not a Muslim. Further, this is not meant to be a Muslim bashing article. I just want to know, from individual Muslims, what constitutes a "good" Muslim.
What is to stop some freak dressed up as another freak from doing something detrimental to our society? I think this holiday along with every other holiday is over commercialized and will ultimately leave us as a society, vulnerable to attacks on all levels.
Why is it bad to smoke weed and OK to sell beer?Michael Phelps smoked a bong, Lance Armstrong is pushing alcohol. Why is Phelps the bad guy?
The Myth of Religious Tolerance "The choice of religious "freedom" or "liberty" as the proper category for discussion and the exclusion of "tolerance" flies in the face of the societal trend to deal with church-state issues in terms of religious tolerance."
Mental illness or disorders have been on a constant rise for many years nationally and worldwide due to many reasons,a larger populace,widespread economic disillusionment and political propaganda.The need to remedy this or at least smooth over the symptoms is felt by all, either …
I've seen jeremiads for the American Dream... I've seen 'viners write op-ed pieces on almost every topic...
Like Humans, Plants Fare Better When They're Among "Family"In 2007, Canadian researchers amazed us with the discovery that plants can distinguish whether nearby plants are their siblings —in other words, if they've grown from seeds from the same source.
I've been thinking about this idea for awhile and I guess I just need to get it out, it seems timely. Our government is and has been for a number of years seemingly incapable of making the tough decisions.
Obama and the End of White GuiltBarack Obama portrayed himself as America's first "post-racial" president, yet he and his supporters continue to play the race card against ordinary Americans who oppose him.
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