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In his famous ‘Sermon on the Mount’, Jesus said “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also”. It’s a slightly more elegant way of telling us to put our money where our mouth is. We may talk a good game, but the way we spend our money shows what we really value.

A Scanner Darkly - "But even its practitioners acknowledge that, if misused, collective intelligence tools could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of." AND "Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime." Strange Eden -

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From the Lancettoday: Child maltreatment remains a major public-health and social-welfare problem in high-income countries. Every year, about 4–16% of children are physically abused and one in ten is neglected or psychologically abused.

I have raised the matter in month of August in Parliament (NST Online) KUALA LUMPUR, WED: The Information Ministry is considering a special channel over Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) to broadcast Parliamentary proceedings, said its minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek.

Folk singer Odetta, whose voice and songs were common themes through the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, died today at 77. The New York Times reported that she had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama's inauguration....

Virgin Atlantic, jointly owned by Singapore Airlines and Richard Branson, has been quick to attack the proposed merger of British Airways and Qantas.  Virgin Atlantic chief executive Steve Ridgway said, “One day it’s Iberia, then it’s American, and now Qantas.

Virgin Atlantic, jointly owned by Singapore Airlines and Richard Branson, has been quick to attack the proposed merger of British Airways and Qantas.  Virgin Atlantic' Steve Ridgway said, “One day it’s Iberia, then it’s American, and now Qantas.

I'm betting this song won't make the top 20. Goodbye, Mr. Presisent Maybe it will do well with the bottom 30. via Blake C Hickman

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