That is not to say that this island country in the southwestern Pacific doesn't have an interesting history, a unique culture or modern-day challenges.
But our legal system is falling hopelessly behind the capabilities of our technology, and we must reform our laws to meet modern-day challenges.
The modern-day challenge to this outlook began with EO Wilson's 1975 book, Sociobiology, which claimed humans were innately warlike, and that men would tend to dominate women in social hierarchies.
It is our modern-day challenge to find ways to manage these ever-present demands with balance and moderation -- and with an eye on protecting sleep.
They are believers in the essential nobility of the human race, and enjoy the optimism of humankind surviving through our modern day problems and challenges to someday mature into an enlightened, powerful race of explorers and cultural unifiers.
That is the task being squarely addressed last week at I.B.M.'s Center for Social Software — a roughly 30-member lab that addresses "the modern-day challenges of collaborating across distributed, global enterprises".
Authors within the brotherhood have recently argued that a greater attention to history can help guide the church through modern-day challenges.
However, their stories live on as we challenge modern day slavery in the form of mass incarceration, human trafficking, discrimination, bigotry, and hatred.
There have been many modern day prophets who have challenged us to reconsider the way we see the world, stirred our conscience, provoked us to act in bold and courageous ways: Martin Luther King, Jr., Elie Wiesel, The Dali Lama, Aung Sung Suu Kyi to name but a few of the many modern day prophets.
If not, they will be unable to deal with the challenges of modern day policing.
