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Yahoo News |
10:44pm PST |
Microsoft Venture Adds to Blackberry Woes (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Microsoft Corp. has won backing from major cellular networks for a new generation of phones designed to transform mobile e-mail from executive accessory to standard issue for the corporate rank-and-file. |
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Theophiles |
9:41pm PST |
Doc: Birth Defects Up in Polygamous Area |
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Summary: "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children.Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessi |
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Theophiles |
9:41pm PST |
Vanity Fair Celebrates Patriarchy |
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Summary: From Mere Comments:
I've argued here before that, whatever feminism tells us, our choice is not between egalitarianism and patriarchy but between two visions of patriarchy: a Christian patriarchy that protects women as precious weaker vessels (1 Pet 3:7) |
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Theophiles |
9:41pm PST |
Pope says science no threat to faith |
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Summary: "Science made such rapid progress in the 20th century that people may sometimes be confused about how the Christian faith can still be compatible with it, Pope Benedict said on Friday.
'The Church joyfully accepts the real conquests of human knowledge an |
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Theophiles |
9:41pm PST |
Women’s Ordination and Fantasy History |
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Summary: From Pontifications:
There is nothing exceptional about the article to which the Pontificator has asked me to respond—except perhaps for its perfection in exemplifying all of the half-baked arguments and bad history that seem to be the stock-in-trade o |
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Theophiles |
9:41pm PST |
Creation Evangelism Strikes Back |
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Summary: "Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementary students packed into pews, their faces rapt. With dinosaur puppets and silly cartoons, he was training them to reject much of geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies."
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BBC News |
9:14pm PST |
Close vote expected on ID cards |
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Summary: The government is facing a close vote in the Commons when MPs reconsider its proposals for identity cards. |
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BBC News |
8:54pm PST |
Iraq suspends dealings with AWB |
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Summary: Iraq ends its relationship with Australia's monopoly wheat exporter AWB, until the end of a bribery inquiry. |
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BBC News |
8:51pm PST |
Record-breaking snowstorm hits US |
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Summary: A major snow storm hits US mid-Atlantic and north-east states, disrupting air travel and cutting off power. |
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Yahoo News |
8:47pm PST |
Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. |
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Yahoo News |
8:36pm PST |
Cheney accidentally shoots hunting companion (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney
accidentally wounded a companion with shotgun pellets on a
weekend quail hunt in Texas, his office said on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:21pm PST |
Northeast Storm Sets Mark for Snowfall (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A record-breaking storm buried sections of the Northeast under more than 2 feet of snow on Sunday, frustrating thousands of marooned travelers but enthralling winter-lovers who took to the streets with cross-country skis and snowshoes. |
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Yahoo News |
8:20pm PST |
Plane Skids Off N.Y. Runway; No Injuries (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A Turkish Airlines flight skidded off a runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport Sunday, but none of the 198 passengers were injured, a regional transportation spokesman said. |
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Yahoo News |
8:18pm PST |
Hamas will end armed struggle if Israel quits territories: leader (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Hamas will end its armed struggle against Israel if the Jewish state withdraws from all occupied Palestinian territories, its leader has told Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta. |
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DJ Chuang |
8:08pm PST |
trying to remove AlfaCleaner |
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Summary: I’ve had to deal with strange and seemingly persistent software like PestTrap and AlfaCleaner during the past few days. I don’t know how they got onto my PC running Windows XP, purporting to be anti-spyware. Looked suspicious to me. McAfee des |
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Yahoo News |
8:07pm PST |
'Jaws' Author Peter Benchley Dies at 65 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Peter Benchley, whose novel "Jaws" made millions think twice about stepping into the water even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died at age 65, his widow said Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:55pm PST |
Incumbent Named Iraqi PM in Tight Voting (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Shiite lawmakers Sunday chose incumbent Ibrahim al-Jaafari to be Iraq's new prime minister, endorsing the physician and longtime exile for a second term by a single vote — thanks in large part to support by a radical anti-U.S. faction. |
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Yahoo News |
7:52pm PST |
3rd Inmate Caught in Illinois Jailbreak (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Six inmates — including two who are charged with murder — escaped during the night by overpowering a guard at the understaffed county jail, authorities said. Three were captured Sunday. |
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Cnn.com |
7:36pm PST |
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter |
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Summary: Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a campaign contributor during a weekend quail hunt on a friend's South Texas ranch, local authorities and the vice president's office said Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:31pm PST |
U.S. Olympians Endure Rough First Weekend (AP) |
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Summary: AP - It was hardly a lost weekend for the U.S Olympic team. The good news was just hard to find among all the disappointments. |
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Yahoo News |
7:26pm PST |
Kwan Says Thanks, but No, to NBC's Offer (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Faced with the loss of its biggest Winter Olympics star only two days into the Turin Games, NBC tried to keep Michelle Kwan — in the broadcast booth. |
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Cnn.com |
7:19pm PST |
NE blizzard snarls and cancels travel plans for many |
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Summary: A raging snowstorm intensified Sunday as it moved up the East Coast, shutting down airports and dumping 18 inches of snow or more on some parts of the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states. Ronald Reagan Washington National and all three New York-area airp |
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ChristianPost |
7:07pm PST |
S. Dakota Lawmakers Seek Abortion Ban, Challenge Roe |
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Summary: Lawmakers in South Dakota are attempting to make illegal nearly all abortions in the state, challenging the Roe v. Wade decision which legalized abortion nationwide.
With a vote of 47 to 22, the State House passed a bill on Thursday which still needs ... |
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ChristianPost |
7:07pm PST |
S. Dakota Lawmakers Seek Abortion Ban, Challenge 'Roe' |
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Summary: Lawmakers in South Dakota are attempting to make illegal nearly all abortions in the state, challenging the Roe v. Wade decision which legalized abortion nationwide.
With a vote of 47 to 22, the State House passed a bill on Thursday which still needs ... |
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BBC News |
6:54pm PST |
Jaws author Peter Benchley dies |
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Summary: Peter Benchley, the US author whose novel Jaws became a blockbuster movie, has died aged 65. |
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Yahoo News |
6:49pm PST |
Report Spreads Blame for Katrina Failures (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Unheeded warnings, poor planning and apathy in recognizing the scope of Hurricane Katrina's destruction led to the slow emergency response from the White House down to local parishes, a House investigation concludes. |
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Cnn.com |
6:37pm PST |
Teen missing after plane crashes into house |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PST |
Demonstrators demand Preval be declared president of Haiti (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - Some 10,000 people demonstrated in the Haitian capital, demanding Rene Preval be declared president even though it was unclear if he could reach the 50 percent needed to win the election outright. |
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Yahoo News |
6:04pm PST |
Cheney accidentally shoots hunting partner (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a 78-year-old man while the two of them were hunting on a ranch in southern Texas, Cheney's office said. |
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BBC News |
6:02pm PST |
'Exile or trial' for Nepal king |
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Summary: Nepal's top Maoist rebel leader tells the BBC the only future he can see for King Gyanendra is exile or trial. |
