Until 2001, Botswana suffered from one of the highest AIDS rates world over and, while this is now dropping, it is still strangling the prosperity of the nation. AIDS leads to further problems such as the 6.4 million children orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Someone just forwarded me a link of all sorts of Scientology Blogs in Switzerland. I had no idea they were so active out there! There are Scientology centers all over Switzerland though -- they are:
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What do you do when you know drugs are a one-way street down, and your friends are taking them? That was the dilemma facing Rama, a teenager from Sydney. "All drugs lead to one place. Nowhere," said Rama, who had already been through it — ecstasy, cocaine, marijuana — all before he was 18 years old.
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Rama counts himself as one of the lucky ones. Because he got help when he needed it.
Things were going downhill at breakneck speed when a friend of his, a Scientologist, saw Rama was in trouble. His friend told Rama about a program sponsored by the Church of Scientology of Sydney, called the Drug Free Ambassadors and handed him a set of booklets about drugs. The Drug Free Ambassadors and their American counterpart, the Drug Free Marshals, created by the Church of Scientology International 13 years ago, have chapters throughout Australia and New Zealand and around the world.
The booklets Rama read are very special. They were created by the Foundation for a Drug-Free World, and they are written for young people giving them the truth about the most commonly abused street and prescription drugs. What makes these booklets unique and effective is that they are easy to understand and they're factual. With peer pressure pushing kids to take drugs, these booklets arm kids against the false propaganda, giving them information they need to make educated and responsible choices about drugs.
Once he decided to quit taking drugs, Rama wanted to get through to his friends who were still using them. And he wanted to reach out to kids throughout Sydney to help them avoid getting into drugs in the first place.
Cyrus Brooks, the spokesman for the Drug-Free Ambassadors of Sydney, was full of praise for the teenager. "Rama is very gung-ho. And he knows what he's talking about," said Brooks. "He wants to make sure other kids don't fall into the same trap he was in."
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Manipulated German press, trying to play down the Scientology Grand Opening in Berlin, mis-estimate guest figures by a factor of 10. I guess that's what you get when you write your tilted story before you even get to the scene to talk to anybody.
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Manipulated German press, trying to play down the Scientology Grand Opening in Berlin, mis-estimate guest figures by a factor of 10. I guess that's what you get when you write your tilted story before you even get to the scene to talk to anybody.
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Leave it to German precision. German Scientologists create high-tech new Church in Berlin, with high-tech seminar rooms and auditorium systems, as well as flat-panel displays that take you through the whole place by yourself.
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Sandisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable.
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Over 88,000 copies sold in the first 2 days since the newly-restored DVD of a filmed interview with L. Ron Hubbard was released in 50 languages this at the Scientology New Year celebration. Cutting-edge tech was used to restore the aged 1966 film to remarkable hi-res DVD quality.
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Just released on DVD last night was the filmed interview with L. Ron Hubbard, An Introduction to Scientology. This was released at the Scientology New Year celebration in Los Angeles just now, by Mr. David Miscavige - Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center.In this filmed interview -- the only filmed interview L. Ron Hubbard ever gave -- he answers the most commonly-asked questions about Scientology.
The questions answered in this DVD include:"What is Scientology?"
"What is the Mind?"
"How did L. Ron Hubbard come to develop Scientology?"
"How did he make these discoveries?"
"What is an auditor?"
"Why is Man on this planet and what is his purpose here?"
"Why is many basically good?"
I would definitely recommend it for anyone who is endevouring to find out what Scientology is all about. More data on it can be found at www.scientology.org/interview/.
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Rite Aid Corp. — the third-biggest drugstore chain, which recently agreed to buy the Eckerd and Brooks chains as well — has seen its profits rise of late after its introduction of generic versions of drugs such as Zoloft. Why? Because it's a multibillion-dollar money-making scam, and they want in on the action! Personally, I think it's pretty underhanded. It's selling in to people's non-understanding or non-confront of situations they have in life that are making them depressed. It's like preying on the unhappiness of someone who just had a loved one die -- their problem is not a sudden chemical imbalance that miraculously happened in their brain. Their problem is that a loved one just died!
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