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Back in 1978, Carl Sagan included a time line of scientific progress in his book Cosmos, showing that nothing at all happened between A.D. 415 and A.D...
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Juvenile court reversed when it denied parent's request for change of custody against a nonparent. Natural parent has paramount right to custody. No evidence that father contractually relinquished his fundamental rights.
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WHITTIER - He was part of the famed Doomsday Defense of the Dallas Cowboys in the 1970s - but on Thursday, former linebacker D.D. Lewis was at Whittier Christian's Maybrook Elementary School to tackle a far different subject: fertilizer.
When Lewis, 65, retired from the Cowboys in 1981, his alcoholism caused him to hit rock-bottom, he said. But after treatment, a friend offered him a job in the fertilizer industry that has now stretched into a 26-year second career.
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Sustained by a dubious exegesis of selective Biblical texts," [Stephen Sizer] concludes, "Christian Zionism's particular reading of history and contemporary events ... sets Israel and the Jewish people apart from other peoples in the Middle East.. ..it justifies the endemic racism intrinsic to Zionism, exacerbates tensions between Jews and Palestinians and undermines attempts to find a peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, all because 'the Bible tells them so.'
Being a "bom again" preacher, however, did not preclude [Cyrus I. Scofield] from becoming a member of an exclusive New York men's club in 1901. In his devastating biography, "The Incredible Scofield and His Book", Joseph M. Canfield comments, "The admission of Scofield to the Lotos Club, which could not have ...
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After growing up in Oaks Christian's football program since early childhood, Cody Cordell made a big leap of faith this past summer.
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While poised to lead the economic rebound, Maryland has holes in its game it must shore up if the state is to retain its front- running role in a global economy driven by high-tech innovation, the state's top economic development official said.
Maryland was shielded from the worst of the recession by its highly educated work force and the federal dollars that flow into its government facilities and colleges and universities. The unemployment rate, however, remains high, at 7.4 percent. Corporate profits and individual incomes, while heading in the right direction, are still well below pre-recession levels.
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PERTH AMBOY - Coach Tyler Van Dyk figured Hawthorne Christian's magic carpet ride had to end sometime.
But this was not what he had in mind.
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ELLISTON -- Shawn Christian completed 19 of 29 passes for 320 yards and five touchdowns to lead Eastern Montgomery to a 41-8 win over Covington in a Region C Division 1 semifinal Friday.
EastMont (11-0) will host Galax next week.
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By Chris Carlson
The Virginian-Pilot
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In 2008, in what would have been a career highlight for any musician, much less a Catholic one like himself, contemporary Christian music artist John Angotti performed at a concert on the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI's first papal Mass in the United States.
But to hear Angotti tell of it, the gig, though a great honor, was no more important than any of the dozens he plays around the world every year.