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Can God make you thin? The good news about church-based health and fitness programs Walk by the sanctuary of New Life Ministries in New Orleans on a Tuesday evening, and you'll likely hear the uplifting sounds of contemporary gospel ......(Continue Reading) Globalisation: now the good news; pessimists of left and right agree: we are a degenerate society, betrayed by our lust for change and obsession with fashion. Across the political spectrum, from communitarians to social conservatives, and from New Age ecologists to religious moralisers, politics increasingly ......(Continue Reading)Songs of experience: does sustainability really work? Three decades of successes, failures, and change at Wales's Centre for Alternative Technology In 1974 a group of young, (mostly) British idealists took over a derelict slate quarry in Mid Wales. The site covered about forty acres, mostly precipitous ......(Continue Reading)Kick back: the curious appeal of soccer's tribalism How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization By Franklin Foer HarperCollins, $24.95 I have spent each of the past three Sundays ......(Continue Reading)Get a Life DVD: Showgirls V.I.P. Edition If there ever there was proof that strippers need love, too, it’s the Paul Verhoeven train wre—er, movie, Showgirls....(Continue Reading)
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