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BBC News |
10:49pm PST |
Universities face foreign slump |
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Summary: The BBC's Mike Baker warns UK universities might face problems in the lucrative market of foreign students. |
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Cnn.com |
9:39pm PST |
Jill Carroll's kidnappers set 'final deadline' |
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Summary: The kidnappers of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll have set a February 26 deadline for their demands to be met or she will be killed, Alrai Television in Kuwait reported citing sources close to the kidnappers. In a video that appeared Thursday on the private |
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BBC News |
6:04pm PST |
Haiti poll may go to second round |
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Summary: Rene Preval sees his lead in Haiti's presidential poll drop, as latest results suggest a possible second round. |
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BBC News |
5:34pm PST |
Danish ambassador to leave Syria |
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Summary: Denmark pulls its envoy out of Syria on safety grounds because of the Prophet Muhammad cartoon row. |
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BBC News |
4:15pm PST |
Study into Forth bridge dry-out |
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Summary: Engineers are set to look into the feasibility of fitting Ł12m de-humidification equipment onto the main suspension cables of the Forth Road Bridge. |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PST |
How sperm can go into overdrive |
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Summary: Researchers have identified a key component of the mechanism sperm use to speed progress to the egg. |
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ChristianPost |
3:14pm PST |
Judge Dismisses Case Disputing Jesus' Existence |
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Summary: A judge in Italy rejected a suit brought forward by an atheist who had accused a Catholic priest of deceiving the public by saying that Jesus Christ existed.
Judge Gaetano Mautone, who issued the ruling in Viterbo, a town just north of Rome, also ... |
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OneNewsNowPress |
2:10pm PST |
Sekulow: New Air Force Guidelines for Chaplains 'Appropriate and Constitutional' |
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Summary: Revised guidelines affecting the prayers of military chaplains in the U.S. Air Force appear to take into account concerns expressed by Evangelicals about an earlier version -- and that has upset Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and |
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OneNewsNowPress |
2:09pm PST |
Catholic Group Says 'Out' With DePaul's New Queer Studies Program |
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Summary: Students at the largest Roman Catholic university in the U.S. can now minor in study of homosexual culture, history and lifestyle. That is because DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, has begun offering a "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Quee |
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BBC News |
1:57pm PST |
UN urges Nigeria bird flu action |
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Summary: Nigeria must intensify measures to control the spread of the deadly bird flu virus, the UN warns. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:05pm PST |
New FCC Report Reveals Truth -- Cable Choice Helps Consumers |
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Summary: Pro-family groups are welcoming an FCC report that finds consumers who subscribe to cable and satellite services could realize widespread benefits if they could pay for and receive only the channels they want. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:05pm PST |
Ohio School Cans Lord's Prayer -- but 'Caving In' Not the Answer, Says Staver |
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Summary: A public high school in Ohio has stopped opening the school day with a prayer after a newspaper questioned whether the practice was constitutional. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:03pm PST |
Canadian Gov't Urged to Use Override Power Against Activist Judges |
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Summary: A Canadian pro-family activist says he is concerned that any effort to reinstate the traditional definition of marriage in his country will run into a Liberal court roadblock. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:03pm PST |
Filmmakers Hope Re-Released 'Pistol Pete' Biopic Will Inspire Faith |
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Summary: A Christian entertainment company is re-releasing a movie about a star basketball player who came to Christ after his career in the National Basketball Association. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:01pm PST |
Woody Allen and the Abandonment of Guilt |
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Summary: Match Point, Allen's latest offering, most closely resembles another of his Oscar-nominated films -- 1990's Crimes and Misdemeanors. Comparing these two critically-acclaimed films shines a light not only on Allen's dark and cynical writer's journey, but a |
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OneNewsNowPress |
12:58pm PST |
February 10, 2005 |
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Summary: Out by Sunday: Missionaries under expulsion order in Venezuela ... Survey: Protestant megachurches continue to grow ... Same-sex 'marriage' endorsement divides United Church of Christ ... Scientific research supports traditional family structure ... Cheer |
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ChristianPost |
10:04am PST |
Expelled Missionaries Complete Withdrawal from Venezuela Outposts |
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Summary: The final pair of missionaries from New Tribes Mission pulled out of their outposts Thursday, days ahead of their deadline, after being accused of espionage by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who ordered the expulsion of the tribal-focused missions ... |
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BBC News |
9:46am PST |
Search site retires iconic Jeeves |
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Summary: Iconic valet Jeeves is set to disappear from the Ask search site by the end of February. |
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Yahoo News |
8:03am PST |
Judge Tosses Case of Atheist Vs. Priest (AP) |
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Summary: AP - An Italian judge has dismissed an atheist's petition that a small-town priest should stand trial for asserting that Jesus Christ existed, both sides said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:02am PST |
U.S. Slider Zach Lund Banned From Games (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Zach Lund, the top slider on the U.S. skeleton team, was banned from the Turin Olympics on Friday for taking a common hair-restoration pill that can be used to mask steroids. |
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Cnn.com |
8:01am PST |
Brown: Homeland Security policies doomed FEMA |
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Summary: The government's decision to fold the Federal Emergency Management Agency into the Department of Homeland Security led to FEMA's failure during Hurricane Katrina, former FEMA Director Michael Brown testified today. "There was a cultural clash which didn't |
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Theophiles |
8:01am PST |
History of {insert religion here} |
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Summary: From the BBC (with emphasis added):
History of Islam:
Islam was gradually revealed to humanity by a number of earlier prophets, but the final and complete revelation of the faith was made through the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in the 7th century |
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Theophiles |
8:01am PST |
Being Mocked: The Essence of Christ’s Work, Not Muhammad’s |
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Summary: From desiringGod:
Martin Scorsese portrayed Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ as wracked with doubt and beset with sexual lust. Andres Serrano was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to portray Jesus on a cross sunk in a bottle of urine. T |
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Theophiles |
8:01am PST |
Babies' Cells Linger, May Protect Mothers |
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Summary: "Some scientists have proposed that when a woman has a baby, she gets not just a son or a daughter, but a gift of cells that stays behind and protects her for the rest of her life. That's because a baby's cells linger in its mom's body for decades and -- |
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Theophiles |
8:01am PST |
Revising Night |
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Summary: From The Revealer:
Yet what is theology if not a kind of revisionism? In the landscape of human discourse, theology occupies the place between fiction and history, myth and memory. It is from this place that Wiesel has said, “Auschwitz is as important |
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Theophiles |
8:01am PST |
Universist Statement on Cartoon Conflict |
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Summary: "The global conflict of ideas fomented by millions of Muslims threatens to change the course of history for the worse. The Universist Movement, an international body of over ten thousand faithless people, takes a strong stand for individualism as the secu |
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Yahoo News |
8:00am PST |
Ex-FEMA Chief Brown Blames DHS (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Top Department of Homeland Security officials were told that New Orleans' levees were breached the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, former disaster chief Michael Brown said Friday, contradicting previous statements by agency officials w |
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Yahoo News |
7:55am PST |
Woman Who Weighs 37 Pounds Has Healthy Boy (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A woman who is 3 feet tall and weighed 37 pounds before she got pregnant has given birth to her first child — a healthy boy. |
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BBC News |
7:55am PST |
Volkswagen to cut 20,000 workers |
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Summary: German carmaker Volkswagen will cut up to 20,000 jobs as part of restructuring plans that are set to run until 2009. |
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CrossMap |
7:52am PST |
The Message of the Re-Fashioned Pot |
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Summary: Jeremiah heard the Lord's command: "Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words." |
