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ChristianToday |
11:12am PDT |
Anglican Communion worth working together for says Archbishop |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams remained commited to the unity of the Anglican Communion on Friday as he told reporters at the Lambeth Conference that it was worth working and staying together |
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Yahoo News |
11:09am PDT |
Worst over for drivers as pump prices slide: AAA
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. retail gasoline prices have
fallen more than 10 cents per gallon in a week and could fall
another 25 cents by the end of summer, a sign the worst is over
for U.S. motorists this vacation season. |
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Cnn.com |
11:06am PDT |
'Last lecture' prof taught others how to live |
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Summary: Professor Randy Pausch was told he had terminal cancer and had just months to live. So he turned his final lecture at Carnegie Mellon University into a lesson on life. The speech became an internet sensation and sparked a best-selling book. He survived lo |
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Yahoo News |
11:06am PDT |
First ships crawl down Mississippi after spill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The first of 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill began crawling down the Mississippi River Friday after the Coast Guard reopened the waterway to traffic, but it could be days before all of the ships are cleared. |
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Yahoo News |
11:03am PDT |
Oil drops again as US pump prices slip to near $4
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oil prices sank to their lowest point in weeks Friday as investors questioned whether crude has cooled enough to reflect a serious deterioration in demand. Prices at the pump eased to nearly $4 a gallon and the AAA auto club said that could drop anot |
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Cnn.com |
10:41am PDT |
Experts on the trail of Russia's killer bears |
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Summary: A team of experts gathered Friday on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula to decide how to deal with marauding bears that reportedly have killed two people recently.
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CTI News |
10:41am PDT |
'American Teen' |
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Summary: A documentary following seniors at a small school in Indiana is a funny, heartbreaking and compelling narrative about brokenness and dreaming of the future. |
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CTI News |
10:41am PDT |
'Brideshead Revisited' |
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Summary: A worthy adaptation of the classic novel with an outstanding cast deals with sin, passion, grace, and redemption in England between the World Wars. |
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CTI News |
10:41am PDT |
'Step Brothers' |
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Summary: Will Ferrell returns to dangerous--and R-rated--waters in a comedy about family that's hardly a family comedy. |
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CTI News |
10:41am PDT |
'The X-Files: I Want to Believe' |
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Summary: Will Ferrell returns to dangerous--and R-rated--waters in a comedy about family that's hardly a family comedy. |
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CTI News |
10:41am PDT |
News Quiz: Chariots of Fire, and the Smoking Church |
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Summary: Where is the oldest copy of the Bible? Who is Leah Daughtry? And other questions from this week's headlines. |
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CTI News |
10:41am PDT |
My Top 5 Books by the Inklings and Friends |
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Summary: Christopher W. Mitchell, director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College |
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CTI News |
10:41am PDT |
The 30-Day Leviticus Challenge |
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Summary: One church's experiment in living the most arcane book of the Bible. |
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ChristianPost |
10:36am PDT |
Pa. High Court Strikes Down Homosexual 'Hate Crimes' Law |
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Summary: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday tossed out language that expanded the state's hate crime law to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity." The top state court upheld a November 2007 ruling by the Commonwealth Court. |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PDT |
New home sales fall less than expected
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the nation's severe housing recession could be approaching a bottom. |
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Cnn.com |
10:23am PDT |
Gash appears on jet at 29,000 feet |
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Summary: Passengers described hearing a loud noise before their plane was forced to make an emergency landing with a gaping hole in its side. The pilot of the Qantas flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne, Australia, said an initial investigation showed there was an " |
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Cnn.com |
10:23am PDT |
'Last lecture' professor taught others how to live |
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Summary: Professor Randy Pausch was told he had terminal cancer and had just months to live. So he turned his final lecture at Carnegie Mellon University into a lesson on life. The speech became an internet sensation and sparked a best-selling book. He survived lo |
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Cnn.com |
10:18am PDT |
Minimum-wage workers live on the edge |
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Summary: Timothy Davis, a 21-year-old who makes just above the minimum wage, chose to live on his own three months ago. He almost immediately regretted it.
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BBC News |
10:17am PDT |
Sudanese warning on peacekeepers |
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Summary: Sudan again warns it cannot be held responsible for the safety of UN troops in Darfur if its leader is prosecuted for war crimes. |
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BBC News |
10:12am PDT |
Obama urges Iran to end dispute |
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Summary: Barack Obama tells Iran not to wait for a new US president before resolving the nuclear crisis. |
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Yahoo News |
10:10am PDT |
Obama urges Iran to accept EU nuke proposal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama said Friday that Iran should promptly accept an international call to freeze its uranium enrichment program, which some nations see as a potential step toward obtaining nuclear weapons. |
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BBC News |
10:06am PDT |
Judges dismiss Rosepark fire case |
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Summary: A fresh attempt to prosecute the owners of a care home where 14 elderly residents died in a fire collapses. |
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Yahoo News |
10:05am PDT |
NFL Network report: Favre plans to report to camp
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Brett Favre has told the Green Bay Packers he plans to report to training camp this weekend, according to an NFL Network report Friday — a move perhaps designed to force the team to quickly work out a trade for the three-time MVP. |
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Yahoo News |
9:56am PDT |
Obama: Iran should not wait for next U.S. president
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama
called on Iran on Friday to move quickly to accept an offer of
trade and technical incentives to halt its uranium enrichment
program. |
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Yahoo News |
9:48am PDT |
U.S. expands sanctions against Mugabe's government
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States expanded sanctions
against President Robert Mugabe's government on Friday,
increasing pressure on the Zimbabwean leader as his party
discusses a power-sharing deal with the opposition. |
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BBC News |
9:36am PDT |
Rising demands threaten wetlands |
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Summary: Wetlands risk conversion to farmland as demand for food and biofuel grows, a conference in Brazil is told. |
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Cnn.com |
9:28am PDT |
Barges allowed into Mississippi oil spill |
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Summary: Two fuel barges were cleared Friday to enter Mississippi River waters that have been off-limits since a massive oil spill from a barge that collided with a tanker, a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman said.
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Cnn.com |
9:26am PDT |
Europe crucial to anti-terror efforts, Obama says |
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Summary: America's allies in Europe are crucial to the success of anti-terror efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and in helping solve economic problems at home, Sen. Barack Obama told CNN on Friday.
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BBC News |
9:24am PDT |
Live text - London Grand Prix |
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Summary: Asafa Powell and Phillips Idowu head a star-studded line-up on the first day of the final warm-up event before the Olympics. |
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Cnn.com |
9:22am PDT |
Zakaria: Vote marks huge shift for India |
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Summary: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a vote of confidence this week, allowing his ruling party to keep in play a proposed nuclear partnership with the United States.
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