Thursday, May 27, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, May 27, 2010)
(1)- STABILITY – He belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized; the superior public official who makes the center hold and keeps things from falling apart. He's also a poet.

(2)- JESUS HISTORY – Since serious scholarly study of the Gospels began, in the 19th century, its moods ranged from the frankly skeptical—including a “mythicist” position that the story is entirely made up—to the credulous. Now comes...

(3)- INDICTMENT – In 2003, prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. The response was damning.

(4)- HIGH FASHION FOODIE STUFF – When food meets fashion it simply has to look tasty and amusing at the same time. The award-winning Italian photographer Fulvio Bonavia has made these tasteful creations for his latest book “A Matter of Taste”.

(5)- EXCOMUNICATED – An Arizona Catholic nun is reassigned and "automatically excommunicated" after she approved an emergency abortion during a patient medical crisis. She was a senior administrator at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.

(6)- AMERICAN ZENOPHILIA – Our fascination with Buddha goes well beyonf power drinks and moview stars. Although the centuries-old religion isn’t overwhelmingly practiced in the United States its ideas permeate American culture.

(7)- TIMBER NEWS – Agreement halts Canadian timber harvest, largely ending a long-running dispute between environmentalists and lumber interests. The pact will preserve wildlife habitat while giving the industry assurances of future supply.

(8)- IRONY?? -- Nadya Suleman, 34, mother of 14 whose delivery of eight babies conceived through in vitro fertilization last year has made good on her promise to PETA by unveiling a sign promoting animal birth control in her front yard.

(9)- ER VISITS -- One in 5 people in the US visit an emergency room every year, and most have health insurance of some kind, says a survey contradicting common perception that uninsured people and illegal immigrants pack emergency rooms.

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