If The U.s. Wants To Help People

Solar Power Is One Of The Most Hopeful Technologies But Still Produces About 0.01 Percent Of U.s. Electricity. The U.s. Allocates Just $159 Million For Solar Research Per Year - About What We Spend In Iraq Every Nine Hours.

The Trails Are A Reminder Of Our Insignificance. We Come And Go, But Nature Is Forever. It Puts Us In Our Place, Underscoring That We Are Not Lords Of The Universe But Components Of It...so When The World Seems To Be Falling Apart, When We Humans Seem To Be Creating Messes Everywhere We Turn, Maybe It's Time To Rejuvenate In The Cathedral Of The Wilderness - And There, Away From Humanity, Rediscover Our Own Humanity.

There Seems To Be This Sense Among Even Well-meaning Americans That Africa Is This Black Hole Of Murder And Mutilation That Can Never Be Fixed, No Matter What Aid Is Brought In.

The Equivalent Of Five Jumbo Jets' Worth Of Women Die In Labor Each Day, But The Issue Is Almost Never Covered.

Conservatives, Who Have Presumed That The Key To Preventing Aids Is Abstinence-only Education, And Liberals, Who Have Focused On Distribution Of Condoms, Should Both Note That The Intervention That Has Tested Most Cost-effective In Africa Is Neither... Secular Bleeding Hearts And Religious Bleeding Hearts Will Have To Forge A Common Cause.