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Researchers from the University of London calculated that it would take $220,000 annually to raise someone’s happiness to pre-death levels after a spouse dies, $118,000 for a child, $28,000 for a parent, $16,000 for a friend and only $2000 for a sibling.
Recently ABC News reported, “You are what you eat . . . but science suggests you’re also what your grandmother ate.” Yet Moses wrote, some 4000 years ago, that children are effected by “the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation” (Numbers 14:18).
British researchers say they’ve successfully grown human heart tissue from stem cells. Scientists say it’s a step toward the transplant of replacement heart valves or possibly one day a whole heart.
Cities have an almost magical ability, spurred by increased human interaction, to stimulate innovation and increase wealth. Recent research demonstrates that everything from crime to per capita income grows alongside the population.
On January 5, 1925, in the pictured Signs of the times article by T E Bowen, the following sentiment is presented: “God is love. His law is but the expression of that love. It makes known the character of God.
God’s law tells us how to love our Creator as supreme whom we have not seen, and how to love our neighbour as ourselves whom we have seen.”
Signs remains committed to expressing the Word of God in every magazine. To explore one of the Ten Commandments mentioned above, check out the article on the next page to learn why self-control is a valuable lesson to learn as early as possible in life.
Extract from Signs of the Times, July 2007.
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