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- Secularism in America Todya and Tomorrow By : Cray Bruneur
A article about Secularism in america. - Race And Racism – Some Concepts Defined By : glennmurray
Despite adamant claims to the contrary, racism continues to plague many peoples around the world. The first step toward resolving issues of racial intolerance and prejudice is to develop an understanding of the underlying concepts and their labels.
This (rather long) article touches on the following topics: - Spreading The Word By : Aaron Hall
ELSI Projects Target Diverse Audience
Worldwide progress toward obtaining a human DNA reference sequence has heightened the urgency of dealing with a host of challenging ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) surrounding the data. From the start, the DOE Human Genome Program has devoted up to 3% of its annual budget to addressing these topics, focusing particularly on the privacy and confidentiality of genetic information (including issues of ownership and commercialization) and on the development of educational materials geared toward a diverse public. - Ngos - The Self-appointed Altruists By : Sam Vaknin
Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics, do-gooders, and professional altruists.
Always self-appointed, they answer to no constituency. Though unelected and ignorant of local realities, they confront the democratically chosen and those who voted them into office. A few of them are enmeshed in crime and corruption. They are the non-governmental organizations, or NGO's. - The Roman Family By : Sam Vaknin
The father in the Roman family (paterfamilias) exercised absolute and lifelong power over all other family members (patria potestas): his wife, children, and slaves. If the father's father was alive - then he was the supreme authority in the household. Fathers were even allowed to execute their grown sons for serious offenses like treason.
Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth gods and the paterfamilias was its priest. The family was thought to posses a "genius" (gens) - an inner spirit - passed down the generations. The living and the dead members of the family shared the gens and were bound by it.
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