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POPSParents, kids, share learning experience This clip :http://arif.amplify.com/2009/12/27/at-risk-kids-successful-new-york-program-a-possible-solution/ reminded me of below story. The common denominator is the holistic approach of community/family involvement from the early start.
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POPSSharks conservation Interesting and fascinating story of how technology is being used to help balance the marine life. Click the source and then click the short video.
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POPSRumi's Sufism A guide on spiritual path is somewhat synonymous with Intercession, which in both Christianity and Islam, is a prayer to God on behalf of another person.
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POPSIndians vow to marry sex workers This story is really unconventional. Adds to the syncretic traditions of the continent. The group contains multi-religious members, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims. The leader's name is Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (Ram is a common Hindu name, Rahim is a common Muslim name and Gurmeet is common Sikh name). The group mostly offers community services, social welfare and spiritual leadership. And taking on prostitutes as wives - en mass - is unheard of. The Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Wow.
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POPSU.S. Muslims are Americans too Americans are Christians, Jews, Hindus, agnostics, atheists, and anything else in between -- but Americans are also Muslims, millions of them, and Islam has now become integral to what the distinguished American sociologist Robert Bellah termed our "civil religion."
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POPSGoogle to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online “I can think of no better use of our time and our resources than to make the images and the ideas of your civilization available to all the people of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said.
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POPSA Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,” Once people are awake, he argued, their brain essentially revises its dream images to match what it sees, hears and feels " the dreams are “corrected” by the senses.