Is your relationship doomed? Test may tell

A new test can predict whether or not a relationship will last, researchers say.

The test uses a word association task often employed to assess racism and bias to reveal what partners really think about each other, even if they don’t realize it.

Most previous research on relationship success has focused on directly asking couples how they feel about one another. > more.

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Frank Fenner: No hope for humans

Frank Fenner doesn’t engage in the skirmishes of the climate wars. To him, the evidence of global warming is in. Our fate is sealed.

“We’re going to become extinct,” the eminent scientist says. “Whatever we do now is too late.”

Fenner is an authority on extinction. The emeritus professor in microbiology at the Australian National University played a leading role in sending one species into oblivion: the variola virus that causes smallpox. > more.
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A System called Apartheid

Well Jo’anna she runs a country

She runs in Durban and the Transvaal
She makes a few of her people happy, oh
She don’t care about the rest at all
She’s got a system they call apartheid
It keeps a brother in a subjection
But maybe pressure can make Jo’anna see
How everybody could a live as one

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Israel flotilla raid needs international inquiry, says UN chief

Ban Ki-moon suggests panel made up of many states to discover what happened, according to Netanyahu aide.

The UN secretary general has called for a multinational investigation of Israel’s raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that left nine dead, an Israeli official said today. > more.

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We must choose not to isolate…

TODAY’S VERSE. “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.” Hebrews 3:13 (NIV)

TODAY’S THOUGHT. God made us for fellowship. It is wired into our brain. We need God and other people. Relationships play a pivotal role in our Christianity. We must attune ourselves to God and to each other. If we don’t, then we isolate. And when we isolate, we start > more.

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The poor among us, the measure of faith

Jesus said we would always have poor people among us. In a broken world such as ours, it seems a fact of life. But should it be? Is it necessary that most of the world struggles simply to survive? That children die by thousands for lack of clean water? That “poor” in America equals “rich” in much of the world?

It’s true, you know. There is appalling pain and hardship around the world. And the American church – the wealthiest church in history – is making only a small dent in the problem. This is not a good thing. > more.
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