Religion, it seems, pays. But why? Identifying communities of frequent churchgoers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber found higher incomes and education levels and less welfare participation, along with more marriages and fewer divorces than in the general population.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 17 – Michael J. Behe, a biochemistry professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, has spent the last eight years traveling to colleges promoting intelligent design as a challenge to the theory of evolution.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Relief officials and local government leaders in northern Pakistan have reported dramatically higher death tolls from the devastating Oct. 8 earthquake, with estimates reaching 100,000, the army’s chief spokesman said Monday.
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Huichol mobs wielding machetes and clubs in western Mexico’s Jalisco state have expelled 80 evangelicals from Agua Fria village, threatening to burn the Christians and refusing to allow their return unless they recant their faith. The mobs reacted against evangelicals’ shunning of Huichol native religion, which encourages taking hallucinogenic peyote.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 17 — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution came under sustained attack in federal court here Monday as biochemistry professor Michael J. Behe argued that the theory fails to account for the complex biological machinery that scientists find in the corners of the human cell.
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Cuban police recently raided a home in the Cuban city of Colon and confiscated what officials later called “subversive and dangerous.” But the contraband wasn’t drugs, or pornography, or bomb-making instructions. What police confiscated were printed Gospels of John and a small printing press.
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Louis Farrakhan’s “Millions More Movement” explains on its website: “It’s time for our leadership to stop acting solely on behalf of our churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and organizations. It is time for us as leaders to come together and begin to think, plan and act on behalf of the whole of our people.”
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A coalition of groups opposing slavery in Sudan are protesting President Bush’s decision to reward the radical Islamic regime in Khartoum for alleged measures to curb human trafficking.
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Time magazine’s controversial cover story on “gay teens” is being denounced by critics as blatant homosexual propaganda – which is not surprising, since the Time journalist who researched and wrote the story is a homosexual with a long history of advancing “gay” causes, including the promotion of anonymous homosexual orgies.
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The latest marriage of technology and millennia-old traditions enables anyone with a special request, at least $80 to spare and Internet access to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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Stephen Kobasa has taught English in parochial schools for 25 years, always with a deep religious conviction and without an American flag in his classroom. It was never an issue until this school year began.
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WASHINGTON – While Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers presided over a major Texas law firm, the company was forced to pay more than $30 million to settle claims with investors cheated out of millions by two clients and came under federal scrutiny for its role in a tax-shelter case.
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Pharmacies in black neighborhoods are much less likely to carry sufficient supplies of popular opioid painkillers than those in white neighborhoods, a new study has found, leading researchers to conclude that minorities are routinely undertreated for chronic pain.
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An evangelical Christian activist group is warning it will attempt to use the British government’s new racial and religious hatred law to prosecute for inciting religious hatred book stores selling the Quran.
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(AgapePress) – A California high school says it will no longer prohibit a student from using religious music to accompany her dance performance audition for a January dance team concert. Officials with West High School in Torrance initially told student Lauren Stoudt she could not choreograph her dance to the song “In Your Presence” because [...]
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(AgapePress) – A white lawmaker in Tennessee has been barred from becoming a member of the state’s Black Caucus. State representative Stacey Campfield says he attempted to join the black political group in order to better serve the large minority constituency in his precinct. However, the Knoxville Republican says a leader of the Black Caucus [...]
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(CNN) — Hurricane Katrina’s survivors face homelessness, unemployment and worry-filled sleepless nights, according to a poll of those who sought relief from the Red Cross.
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WASHINGTON — Hurricane Katrina has swept away more than New Orleans buildings: Nearly four in 10 city residents who sought help from the Red Cross say they don’t plan to move back, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds.
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NEW YORK — A divided state appeals court ruled Thursday that a man cannot sue a Manhattan hospital for malpractice (search) in the death of his longtime partner, saying it could not provide tacit approval of same-sex marriages.
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In a turning of tables, two defenders of evolution in academia are being sued for spending more than $500,000 of federal money on a website that encourages teachers to use religion to promote Darwin’s theory.
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