| Bloggers' Soapbox: The high price of globalization
Trade. That's going to be a campaign issue. I think we need another Ross Perot who will split the Republican vote again. Yeah. That's the ticket.But Ralph Nader, Palease Palease Palease, Ralph, don't run again. By the way, what is that tick in one eye about? It's as if Nader has a split personality. One side is saying "This car is unsafe at any speed" and another side is saying "Hey, let's go for a spin." .
Bishop Aquila's Address on Absolutes in Life Issues
This means we must enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ and, in that communion with him, we will discover communion and relationship with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Jesus teaches us: "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6); "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd" (John 10:10-11); "I have called you friends" (John 15: 15); and "Come to me all you who labor and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).As the Second Vatican Council taught, and John Paul II never tired of citing, "Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and his love, fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear" ("Gaudium et Spes," No. 22). Only through a living faith in the person of Jesus Christ does the human person come to fully understand himself or herself and the dignity that we have as children of the Father.
Stretching benefits
The ancient Indian tradition of yoga has quietly become a $3 billion a year business nationwide, and has made significant inroads in corporate America. At Abt, corporate yoga is a benefit offered to the company's 400 workers. For $6, employees can take a class. Abt provides the space, picks up the other half of the tab, and hires Diane Dymek, a certified instructor who operates Begin Within Yoga, of Waltham, to teach. "I look forward to Mondays because of it," Li said. Over the last 20 years, many employers have developed wellness benefits as a way to stave off rising insurance costs by improving worker health. Generally, they include discounted gym memberships, diet groups, or smoking-cessation courses. But in recent years, many Massachusetts companies, including Stride Rite Corp., Tufts Health Plan, and Dunkin' Brands Inc., have incorporated yoga into the workweek.
U.S. new home sales plunge
If everybody in a given country has a roof over his head such that no new energy or materiel needs to go into further home building, then labour and capital that would otherwise go there is freed up for other uses. Wealth and quality of life increases as a consequence.
All the hand-wringing about no need for new houses is silly. What if a new form of all-but-free energy was found, such that no one would be buying oil. Would that be so awful? Maybe for OPEC, but the rest of us could then use the $1800 we spend each year on gasoline to buy other stuff - nicer clothing, nice rakes and shovels and ladders for our homes, maybe a nice set of new dishes.
I don't get it. Posted 28/12/07 at 2:13 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
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