A Rabbi, RoundUp, and the All-American Girl.Kudos to: * Israeli Rabbi Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights Rabbis for Human Rights describes itself as "the rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel, giving voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights".[1] Their membership includes Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and students. , who was arrested this spring for blocking a bulldozer that was in the act of demolishing a Palestinian home in the West Bank. * Andy Davis, who called New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). Public Radio's morning garden show to ask the guest horticulturist's opinion on the U.S. government use of "RoundUp" herbicide for coca eradication in Colombia. RoundUp is controversial, the gardener agreed. Her advice? "The best way to deal with troublesome weeds is by covering them with black plastic or pulling them out by the roots." * Danielle Shimotakahara, a 13-year-old United Methodist from Oregon, for her "Cool-No-Violence Peace Project" campaign, which urges public video-game owners to ensure that children under 18 do not play games depicting people being shot, mutilated mu·ti·late tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates 1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple. 2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. , or dismembered. She started her campaign in response to the shootings at Columbine columbine, in botany columbine (kŏl`əmbīn), any plant of the genus Aquilegia, temperate-zone perennials of the family Ranunculaceae (buttercup family), popular both as wildflowers and as garden flowers. . |
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