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Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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World Youth Day |
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Today is the actual World Youth Day (WYD 2008) in
Sydney. Vicariously, since Tuesday, Filipinos and more than a
billion and a half other TV viewers (It’s live on Mother
Angelica’s EWTN.), radio listeners and newspaper readers in the
rest of the world, have been with the Sydneysiders, the pilgrims and
Pope Benedict XVI in spirit. We have been enjoying the fellowship,
good feeling and aura of Godliness in Sydney. This atmosphere has
also characterized every weeklong WYD pilgrimage and festival since
the first one that Pope John Paul II the Great inaugurated in 1986.
World Youth Day is a series of
events. It is the largest single mobilization of young people and
the occasion for some of the largest assemblies of human beings in
history. The WYD in Manila in 1995 set a record for being
mankind’s biggest assembly.
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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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CENTER OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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Cellphones and
brain cancer
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IS there a link between heavy
cellphone use and tumors in the neck and brain?
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SUNDAY STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Galloping to
perdition
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A2.3-percent growth rate in GDP
or GNP for the Philippines is mediocre by all acceptable growth
benchmarks. We exist in a region of super achievers, where a
5-percent growth rate can be achieved without breaking a sweat.S.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Trafficking of
children and modern slavery
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Anna May is in her third year of
college and on her way to be a social worker. She is no ordinary
girl. She was trafficked form the province into a sex bar in Manila
by local people-traffickers when she was just 16.
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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GRP-MILF
breakthrough for the SONA
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“Praise God,” said Gen.
Rodolfo Garcia. Like “rain in May during a hot summer,” said a
friend who is on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) panel.
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ONE MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Media positioning
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AFTER the first EDSA Revolution,
there were many of the decrees of then President Marcos which were
left to stand in order to prevent disruption in the operations of
government.
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ANALYSIS
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Will Russia’s
new policy paper renew Russia-West ties?
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MOSCOW: Russia earlier this week
issued a foreign policy document proposing a strategic partnership
with the United States and a collective security system across
Europe.
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