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News Near You for Oct. 19
The tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel in iraq, revered by Jews and Muslims alike, could draw tourism to the town of Kifl, Iraq, but modernization plans have run into opposition.
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Crossroads of Antiquity Can’t Decide on New Path
These dramatic unfoldings are ripped from the headlines: A mountain goat — an actual goat, not a member of the musical act — has killed a hiker on the Olympic peninsula. I saw an Olympic marmot when I went there once, but it didn’t kill anyone
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Considering Tetrapods
Paul Harvey My blog contributors John Fea, Gerardo Marti, and Michael Utzinger joined me last weekend at a really wonderful event, the 20th anniversary conference and celebration of the Lilly Fellows Program at Valparaiso University .
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Christianity and Scholarship in the Public Square, the Guild, and the Church
The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified U.S. documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as U.S. officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistle-blower website.
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Pentagon cautions news media on WikiLeaks documents
The loss of the ability to see football and baseball playoff games is familiar territory for sports fans.
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Cablevision and News Corporation Fight, and Sports Fans Lose
I’m certainly no fashionista. Most of my shirts are of the T variety, and I’m still rocking a lot of the clothes I acquired (second hand) in high school. So take with a grain of salt the following evaluation of a recent Los Angeles Times article about Islamic headscarves getting fashionable .
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Headscarves divide Muslims too?
As your GetReligionistas have noted many times , it’s pretty obvious that many people — including more than a few mainstream reporters — are confused about the meaning of the word “evangelical.” Heck, I’m not sure that I know what that word means anymore and I used to be one. The Rev
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Christine O’Donnell, Catholic?
Over the weekend, News Corp. briefly pulled down Fox shows from Cablevision customers’ Web browsers
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Cablevision Complains (Very Quietly) About News Corp.’s Web Blackout
The Hindu Indian centenarian goes back to school AFP … northeastern city of Guwahati, where he will pursue a doctorate on the role his native village played in the spread of a particular stream of Hinduism
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Indian centenarian goes back to school – AFP