"Miracle" as Baby Begins Breathing after Two Hours
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Monday August 30, 2010 "Miracle" as Baby Begins Breathing after Two Hours By Hilary WhiteSYDNEY, Australia, August 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Doctors were baffled in April when a premature baby boy whom they had pronounced dead appeared to come back to life after two hours of being held by his mother. Staff had given child, Jamie, a twin, to his mother to hold and to “say goodbye” after the 27-week gestation boy had been pronounced dead. The attending doctor had spent 20 minutes after the birth trying to get the boy to breathe. Kate Ogg, of Sydney, Australia, held...
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Beer microbes live 553 days outside ISS
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A small English fishing village has produced an out-of-this-world discovery. Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote These are just everyday organisms that live on the coast in Beer in Devon and they can survive in space” End Quote Dr Karen Olsson-Francis Open University Bacteria taken from cliffs at Beer on the South Coast have shown themselves to be hardy space travellers. The bugs were put on the exterior of the space station to see how they would cope in the hostile conditions that exist above the Earth's atmosphere. And when scientists inspected the microbes a year and a...
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THE LIBERAL THEFT OF MEANING
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There are very few things in life that create a sense of profound and lasting meaning; a sense of deep satisfaction and vitality in life. Charles Murray has identified exactly four: *Being a good parent *Having a good marriage *Being a good neighbor and a good friend *Being really good at something that draws the most from your abilities These are all things that anybody of sound mind and a willing heart can engage in, and have success at. ... Whenever a government program is designed to make life easier for people - to pay for their retirement or health...
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Can capitalism live without the welfare state? (Can the welfare state live without capitalism?)
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Can capitalism live without the welfare state?posted: 6.18pm Tue 3 Aug 2010 The Tories are taking the knife to public services and the welfare state—but how far can they go? Socialist Worker examines the role of welfare under capitalism The benefits system is on the verge of collapse—or at least that’s what Tory minister Iain Duncan Smith claimed as he launched the latest attack on the welfare state last week. Think-tanks and media commentators revel in telling us that maintaining public services at their current level is unsustainable. But there is also an ideological attack taking place on the idea...
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Origins, Evolution, and Distribution of Life in the Cosmos: Panspermia, Genetics, Microbes, ...
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Life originated in a nebular cloud, over 10 billion years ago, but may have had multiple origins in multiple locations, including in galaxies older than the Milky Way. Multiple origins could account for the different domains of life: archae, bacteria, eukaryotes. The first steps toward life may have been achieved when self-replicating nano-particles initially comprised of a mixture of carbon, calcium, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus, sugars, and other elements and gasses were combined and radiated, forming a nucleus around which a lipid-like permeable membrane was established, and within which DNA-bases were laddered together with phosphates and sugars; a process which may...
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Catholic Word of the Day: LA DIVINA COMMEDIA, 07-26-10
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Featured Term (selected at random):LA DIVINA COMMEDIA The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). It is an allegory of life; a vision of the world of hereafter. One hundred cantos in length, it reflects the faith of Medieval Catholic Europe and is considered one of the greatest classics of Christian literature. Composed in the vernacular the poet hoped to convert an erring world back to righteousness. The philosophy of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) and St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), the mysticism of Saints Bernard (1090-1153) and Augustine (354-430) and the theology of the early Fathers are synthesized in exquisite language. The...
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Memoir of author who lived in iron lung going national
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Folks in this small Cleveland County town still talk about the community’s most famous person – the woman in the iron lung. Polio victim Martha Mason – paralyzed from the neck down – died in 2009 after spending 61 years in an airtight tube that breathed for her. Her 2003 memoir, “Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung,” released by a small N.C. publisher, has just been reissued by a national firm with a foreword by novelist Anne Rivers Siddons, who called it a story of “hope and heroism.” Also, the community is raising money for a...
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Georgia voters say "YES" to Personhood amendment
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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA - Christian Newswire - Throughout the state on Tuesday, July 20th voters supported an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution that said the "right to life is vested in each human being from their earliest biological beginning until natural death" and that right should be protected by law. In all 46 counties where the amendment was presented, it passed overwhelmingly by an amazing 75 % ! Georgia is the first state in the nation where voters have said "Yes" to the Personhood question. Georgia Right to life chapters began work this spring in requesting that their local county...
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Personhood Montana Delayed, Not Dead
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The Montana Personhood Amendment Initiative CI-102 volunteers received news yesterday that they were just 6,000 signatures short of the required 48,674 signatures to put Personhood on the 2010 ballot. “These are all volunteer signatures, which is an amazing feat in and of itself.” commented Chet Gallagher, Personhood volunteer. These folks, both with the Montana ProLife Coalition and Personhood Montana, were working nonstop evenings and weekends to collect signatures, while most campaigns hire professionals. The hardworking volunteers see this as a stepping stone to victory in 2011.” The Montana ProLife Coalition and Personhood Montana see the victory in submitting well over...
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Black Pastor arrested for preaching on public right of way
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At 8:30 AM, Saturday, July 17, Pastor Ronnie Wallace, a black Pastor and disabled Veteran from Charlotte, N.C., was arrested by seven white police officers on the public right of way in front of the Family Reproductive Health Abortion Clinic on Hebron St, Charlotte N.C. for obstruction. Pastor Wallace comes regularly to this spot to preach the gospel and offer hope to women who are entering the clinic. Pastor Wallace, a war veteran, is disabled, walks with a cane and cannot stand for long time. ...
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