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77%
Percentage of patients who would like physicians to consider their spiritual needs.
National Institutes of Health
10%
Annual increase in prescription drug costs for every year since 1995.
National Coalition on Health Care
37
United States’ global rank for overall health of its population.
U.S. News & World Report
20%
Percentage of online gamers who consider a virtual world to be their primary residence.
The Economist
$57.2 billion
Combined amount Americans spent in 2005 on meals at Denny’s, Chili’s and Outback Steakhouse.
The Washington Post
“There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said
“Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes.
When we opened them, why, they now
had the land and we had the Bible.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
"We need ... a reliably robust, incorruptible public service to go around killing chickens.”
Dr. David Nabarro, special UN representative for avian flu
“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.”
Former First Lady Barbara Bush commenting on the New Orleans
hurricane evacuees housed at the Astrodome in Houston
“God has enmity against those who, quote, ‘divide my land.’ I would say woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the EU, the United Nations, or United States of America.”
Evangelical Pat Robertson offering an explanation for Ariel Sharon’s recent stroke
"Hwang was not just a successful scientist, he had become a Jesus figure, someone who said he could make the crippled walk again … How could
any good Korean dare question him?”
Han Hak Soo, producer of the Korean television program
that exposed Dr. Hwang Hoo Suk’s cloning fraud
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Vol. 3 No. 2 Specials |
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Penile Politics and Religion in an HIV-wary India |
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AIDS Funerals in South Africa |
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Rick Warren’s Purpose-Driven Plan |
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An Interview from New Orleans
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Inside South Asia’s Fiercest Slum |
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The Struggle with Modernity |
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A Review of Jeffrey Sachs’
The End of Poverty |
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This virus is of a far different breed. |
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