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Chambers wholeheartedly agrees. 46 Disabling security Hundreds of thousands are gaming Supplemental Security Income — and doing great damage to themselves and their children 50 Citizenship test His grandparents are American missionaries and his mother is their U.S.-born daughter, but the U.S. embassy in Guatemala insists that little David Alexander Molina isn’t an American 52 Lighting up Haiti A California nonprofi t is fi ghting poverty in a destitute nation through alternative energy—and without giving handouts DISPATCHES 7 News 56 Recovery amid ruins 16 Human Race Waves of violence in Nigeria leave Christian communities devastated 18 Quotables 58 A question of conscience 20 Quick Takes As the White House reconsiders forcing religious groups to off er REVIEWS coverage for contraception and abortion, the left pushes back Movies & TV against allowing this kind of choice 25 25 28 Books 60 Forgive us our debts 30 Q&A With big mortgages and declining off erings, a record number 32 Music of churches are facing foreclosure NOTEBOOK ON THE COVER: Photograph by Tom Mills/Genesis 63 Lifestyle 66 Technology 68 Science 60 69 Houses of God 70 Sports 71 Money 72 Religion VOICES 5 Joel Belz 22 Janie B. 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Even if Gallup’s team of professionals might not fully How, in this muddle of belligerence and suspicion, approve my sampling methodology, his experts are those of us in the media ever supposed to report would have to be fascinated with the nitty-gritty accurately what people are thinking? I had what responses I’ve typically gotten from the Walmart seemed to me a pretty non-threatening question— shoppers. but after three or four attempts, I hadn’t even gotten So I grabbed my umbrella on this rainy Monday to a cordial, trusting exchange. morning and headed out. Today, I thought, my ques- My thoughts went back to the Gallup organization. tion would be a model of simplicity and fairness: “Is For many years, they’ve been the gold standard of a there any particular message you’d like to send to the sophisticated scientifi c approach to discovering what government in Washington?” And then I would listen the public thinks on a host of diff erent topics. Are the and take notes. Who could second-guess so straight- Gallup people having the same trouble I’m having forward an inquiry? this morning? I wondered.