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Keywords: Rapture

ARTS AND CULTURE

Agnostic in bed with science and religion
- Jen Vuk
- 24 July 2009
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Nikki Gemmell, an agnostic, isn't afraid to confront uncomfortable themes in order to glean a glimmer of understanding. Religion and science may not have the selling power of sex, but each have indelibly shaped individuals as well as history.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Guernseys of sackcloth and ashes
- B. N. Oakman
- 15 July 2008
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There's more silver in my teeth .. than in our trophy cupboard .. Gravestones bear witness to our only premiership .. Every year we leap for the heavens .. and flop in the gutter .. My football team is hopeless.
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ENVIRONMENT

Governments duped over GM food crops
- Charles Rue
- 22 August 2007
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Australian governments have been caught up in a religious type rapture over biotech industry promises. They are seemingly unaware of their economic strategies, which provide for big long-term profits through monopoly control of the food industry.
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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change - it's the apocalypse, stupid
- Mark Byrne
- 27 February 2007
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Like many other politicians and scientists, the man who "used to be the next President of the United States" thinks that "the most serious crisis ever confronting human civilisation is this climate crisis". At the same time, in An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about his travelling climate change slide show, Al Gore laments his failure to have shifted US government policy on the issue.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Dire diary
- Brian Matthews
- 04 July 2006
By and large I disapprove of diaries or, to be more precise, I disapprove of the effort required to keep diaries.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Debates and discourses
- Juliette Hughes
- 14 May 2006
In our house, we’ll continue to tolerate each other’s programs up to the point of nausea or embarrassment. We’ll be able to watch the animal documentaries, Media Watch, and Roy and H. G.’s new Memphis Trousers Half Hour.
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