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SOME YEARS AGO , when I began as The Christian Science Monitor's first resident correspondent in the people's Republic of China, I found myself thinking about Mary Baker Eddy's intent in establishing this international newspaper. I had worked for the Monitor in many countries, and wherever I went, I had always found a warm response to the paper, with most people characterizing it as "fair," "unbiased," and "informative.

In late 1999, Christian Science Monitor correspondent Brad Knickerbocker was introduced via-e-mail to Arthur Hussey, an American living in Namibia. Arthur was looking for a flying companion to help ferry his single-engine Cessna from Windhoek to Fairbanks, Alaska.

A CLASSIC SONG by American blues artist Muddy Waters poses the question, "Why don't you live so God can use you?"  Muddy Waters, "Why don't you live so God can use you?". July 20-24, 1942, First Recording Sessions, 1941-1946, complied by Johnny Parth, Documents Records, © 1992.

THE STORY OF CASSANDRA, the ill-fated Trojan princess whom the Greek leader Agamemnon took captive after the conquest of Troy, is told several times in classic literature, including in Homer's two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey. In her book Mythology, Edith Hamilton says of her: "Cassandra, one of Priam's daughters, was a prophetess.

Dear Readers and Friends, Many of you may know an old French song that says, "Si tous les gens du monde voulaient se donner la main .

THE PIONEER SPIRIT is alive and well, and one of its spiritual frontiers is Madagascar, Africa. A Malagasy man from the area learned about Christian Science in May of 1979, while on an internship in Seattle, Washington.

In a poem about Jesus' healing ministry, New England poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, "The power that filled his garment's hem / Is evermore the same. "  Quoted in Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press, p.

In bible times , the names of individuals were more an identification—names indicated character and nature. Sometimes an individual's name was changed when he went through a transforming experience.

Linda Mayer challenges herself with questions like these: "Is what I'm doing at this moment spiritually motivated, regardless of whether it's family or work? Am I being led by spiritual priorities rather than by a formula that dictates that I should devote so many hours a day to work, and so many hours a day to the family?" Not long ago, she says, she was feeling so overwhelmed at work that she was suffering a kind of dizziness that frightened her. She asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray with her, and their conversation drifted quite naturally toward balance.

News editor Kim Shippey recently talked with two people whose careers have followed untraditional lines. Wes Bockley of Newton, Massachusetts, stayed at home with his two sons while they were growing up.