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Monday, April 09, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Weathering climate
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The latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change issued last week hammers at the message that
unless firm, collective action is taken now, we could face an
environmental catastrophe that threatens global security and
survival.
In its first report in February,
the IPCC had blamed humans for the accelerated pace of global
warming in the past half century, dismaying the remaining
disbelievers who still cling to the notion that the rising
temperature is a result of natural causes.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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BIG DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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Tweedledum and
Tweedledee
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Political parties
in this country have been likened to revolving doors where getting
in is as easy, and as frequent, as getting out. Their alphabet soup
of acronyms hardly say anything important about the organizations
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OPEN NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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The new menace to
Philippine society
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FORGET the
leftists/communists—or whatever it is you choose to call them. The
biggest menace infiltrating society these days comes via the mass
market fueled motor bikers who are slowly and alarmingly wiggling...
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DOUBLETAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Happy Easter!
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CHRISTENDOM’S two most
important anniversary events are often celebrated with meaningless
fanfare. Merchants are aflutter in decorating their department
stores with mythical symbols of the seasons.
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INSIDE CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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The Most Outstanding Senators of the Thirteenth
Congress
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Ralph—this Recto
is truly ‘claro’
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Sen. Ralph Recto has stepped out
of the shadows of his illustrious forebears and a famous wife by
chalking up an outstanding performance in the Thirteenth Congress.
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ENGLISH PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The conjunctive
adverbs revisited
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In English, there’s a third
class of connectives for establishing the logical relationship and
providing transition between two independent clauses, across
sentence boundaries, or between paragraphs.
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The Church in RP
has problems but okey lang to most Filipinos
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The situation—of disobedience
to the Magisterium and to rulings made by the Holy Father, rejection
by local Church authorities of basic norms, clergy misbehavior
(including sexual crimes)—has never been in any way...
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Five fractious
faiths share Easter in a Jerusalem church
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JERUSALEM : Thousands of
worshippers from five Christian faiths on Sunday celebrated Easter
at the traditional site of Jesus’ death, burial and
resurrection—Jerusalem’s contested Holy Sepulcher Church.
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