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This angel brother was given and protected by God. Children with Down syndrome have an extra chromosome of the twenty-first pair. We all have twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, but these special individuals have three of the twenty-first chromosomes, instead of just two. This extra chromosome has often been referred to as the 'love chromosome' that, when planted in the child's DNA by God, brings a little bit of heaven's innocence to the earth through these special children. Nino's "love chromosome" made him truly special.
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A young man's quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the day he arrived in Mununga, a dusty village on the shores of Lake Mweru. Deaf since a young age, Swiller spent his formative years in frustrated limbo on the sidelines of the hearing world, encouraged by his family to use lipreading and the strident approximations of hearing aids to blend in. It didn't work. So he decided to ditch the well-trodden path after college, setting out to find a place so far r...
"This subtle and nuanced study is clearly Fackenheim's most important book." —Paul Mendes-Flohr " . . . magnificent in sweep and in execution of detail." —Franklin H. Littell In To Mend the World Emil L. Fackenheim points the way to Judaism's renewal in a world and an age in which all of our notions—about God, humanity, and revelation—have been severely challenged. He tests the resources within Judaism for healing the breach between secularism and revelation after the Holocaust. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, Hegel, Heidegger, and Buber figure prominently in his account.
In New York, a black woman painter searches for the killer of a friend who fell from a balcony. She suspects a white art critic who was the friend's lover. The suspect is the same man who destroyed her own career with a review. She sets out to trap him.