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| 20/12/1999 |
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Thought For The Day - 20th December 1999
Hardly a week passes these days without news of some breathtaking new scientific discovery - mostly the result of the greatest research project ever - the mapping of the human genome, the decoding of life itself. A few days ago British scientists announced that they'd completed the first stage, the script of chromosome 22, one of the 23 that make up the human genetic profile, Then came news that an American team had worked out a formula for crea... |
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| Chanukah |
| 6/12/1999 |
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Thought for the Day - 6 December 1999
Over the next few days, if you pass a house with candles burning in the windows, chances are that it's a Jewish family celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights. It's our way of celebrating a moment in Jewish history about two centuries before the birth of Christianity. Israel was under Greek rule, which began to suppress our religious practices. Jews rose in rebellion and won back their freedom. The Temple was rededicated, and the great ... |
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| New Year |
| 10/9/1999 |
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Thought for the Day - 10 September 1999
I've just got back from Kosovo. I went there to see how that troubled region is putting itself back together again after the conflict. And it was there, standing among the bombed buildings and the wreckage, that I suddenly realised the power of one word to change the world - the word "forgiveness" - the key word for Jews at this time. Tomorrow and Sunday we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year; and a week after that, Yom Kippur, the Day o... |
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| Teachers |
| 21/6/1999 |
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Thought for the Day - 21 June 1999
The other day, I was taking part in a seminar, and the response to something I said made me aware that we don't say it enough.
We'd come together - academics, planners and politicians - to discuss the connection between schools and citizenship. Citizenship will become part of the national curriculum in two years time, and we were sharing ideas about how to make it work. In the course of my remarks I happened to say that we don't honour teachers eno... |
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