Editors Question: Aside from what has already been done in London, what do you think law enforcement can do to assist their citizens’ protection against terrorist attacks?

One time, I woke up from an afternoon nap, and I went downstairs and found the den full of ladies in red dresses with plates and drinks in their hands. I took it they were from the school next door.

I feel that simply having faith is more important than collecting religious paraphernalia; a spiritual faith without an expiration date attached because life is full of changes. There was a ten year gap from when I last stepped out of a church before I visited another church. This visit was about five years ago, when a friend invited me to attend a church revival.

Most of the worship-praise stuff is a bit too dramatic for my tastes and some of the Christian artists seem to be permanently stuck in the 80’s. But most importantly, none of the singers looked like me.

Although it is sad that he is often relegated to the sub-genre of animation — Spirited Away should have been in the Best Picture category — it is of note that, along with Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles) and others, animation post-Eisner’s Disney is being lifted from the mass-production assembly line and back into the respectable realm of auteur filmmaking.

When I was younger, I didn’t question my parents’ faith. Among my earliest memories are those of Sunday school, the church building and the scary bathroom in the basement. I remember frilly dresses on Easter and getting in trouble when my grandmother caught me running through a sprinkler in the dress.

On February 16, 2005, four days before then vice president Arroyo’s oath-taking as the new president of the republic, people went in droves to the Edsa Shrine, site of the historic 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.

On normal afternoons, Vivi and I dreaded the 40-minute drive home from school; and to pass the time we usually role-played, with me as a princess and her as my prince (I always forced her to be the male) and sometimes we’d end up arguing about the way the story should go, which would, in turn, become a kicking competition.

Stereotypes are specific schemas we use in order to save time while processing information. Rather than come up with new schemas whenever we meet someone, we just use the stereotype we have stored in our memories. So, while it is true that stereotypes are sometimes based on fact, they are often distorted by the biases surrounding the individual.

Summer of 1992. I was about to spend my 7th birthday in China, a remote and distant place that I was to visit for the very first time in my life. Little could I foresee what this country held.