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Shining A Light In The Darkness

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 01.02.2013 | TED Weekends
Read More: Isolation Health, Isolation and Health, Intimacy Health, Professional Mistakes Need Air to Breathe, Social Networks Health, Social Networks, Personal Health, Quality Life, Human Needs, Intimacy and Health, Social Networks and Health, Human Need, Quality of Life, TED Weekends News
Dr. Dean Ornish

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. Yet because of the breakdown of social networks in the past 25 years, this need often goes unfulfilled.

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The Nuns on the Bus Roll Into Washington

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 09.02.2012 | Impact
Read More: Coalition on Human Needs, Taxes, Nuns on the Bus, Human Needs, Bush Tax Cuts, Federal Budget, Paul Ryan Budget, Program Cuts, Impact News
Deborah Weinstein

People of faith and of conscience must add their voices to tell Congress to act reasonably and responsibly. Rejecting the House leaders' efforts later this summer to extend the unfair tax breaks for the top 2 percent would be a good start.

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An Invitation to The Great Conversation

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 03.08.2012 | Religion
Read More: 2012 Presidential Election, The Go-Between God, Jim Wallis, Public Discourse, Conversation, Human Needs, Faith, Civility, Abraham Maslow, Religion News
Cathleen Falsani

At the dawning of 2012, we find ourselves in nervous, troubling times not unlike 1943.

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Missing From the Debate Over the Deficit: The Human Costs of Budget Cuts

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 08.02.2011 | Politics
Read More: Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Medicaid, Head Start, Human Needs, Low Income Families, Food Stamps, Pell Grant, Politics News
Deborah Weinstein

By Deborah Weinstein and Melissa Boteach Listening to the politically-charged debate over the budget deficit and federal debt limit it's easy to forg...

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