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| 14 April 2004 |
| 1. ACTON COMMENTARY |
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“Dominion and Stewardship: Believers and the
Environment” by Dr. Samuel Gregg
 As
the United States prepares to celebrate Earth Day on April
22, people of faith should be wary of a “neo-pantheism”
underlying much of the secular environmental agenda. Dr.
Samuel Gregg, Acton Research Director, shows how the
balancing theological principles of dominion and stewardship
properly guide our understanding of Creation and the human
person.Acton Web Poll: Are the proposed mercury
regulations for power plants too “industry friendly”?
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| 2. THIS WEEK AT ACTON.ORG |
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Vision
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Acton’s CEC is hosting an intensive, one-day
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| 3. ACTON NEWSMAKERS |
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Jordan Ballor’s March 24 ANC commentary
Touting Tort Reform was published by
Tulsa
Today and
Catholic Exchange. Tulsa Today also
interviewed Program Manager Clint Green about the
Institute’s Lord Acton Essay Competition. |
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| 4. FOOD FOR THOUGHT FROM ACROSS THE WEB |
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“What the world needs now is DDT” by Tina
Rosenberg, The New York Times
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Malaria kills two million people a
year. “Yet DDT,” writes Tina Rosenberg, “the very insecticide
that eradicated malaria in developed nations, has been
essentially deactivated as a malaria-control tool today.” |
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| 5. THIS WEEK AT THE ACTON BOOK SHOPPE |
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Spring Sale!
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Offer includes Francois Michelin’s And Why Not?, Frederic
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| 6. IN THE LIBERAL TRADITION |
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Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
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“I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral,
regulated liberty as well as any gentleman... It is one of the
gifts of Providence.” |
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