Archive for July, 2005
Friday, July 29th, 2005
Prinze Slays “Buffy” Dreams
Thursday July 28 6:43 PM ET
By Sarah Hall
According to Freddie Prinze Jr., his wife’s days as a vampire-hunting slayer chick are through.
Pounding a stake through the dreams of Buffy fans everywhere, Prinze said that chances were slim that Sarah Michelle Gellar would one day star in a film version of her hit series, either […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Public Policy Network asks Episcopalians to contact lawmakers
[ENS] — Noting that more than half of U.S. Food Stamp recipients are children,
the Episcopal
Public Policy Network (EPPN) is calling on Americans to urge lawmakers to
protect this
program in the face of upcoming federal budget cuts.
The Congressional Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2006 passed in May requires
the House
and Senate Agriculture Committees to cut $3 billion from […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Nice Quote
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
-Aiden Nowlan
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Panel: Bush Was Unready for Postwar Iraq
WASHINGTON - An independent panel headed by two former U.S. national security advisers said Wednesday that chaos in Iraq was due in part to inadequate postwar planning.
Planning for reconstruction should match the serious planning that goes into making war, said the panel headed by Samuel Berger and Brent Scowcroft. Berger was national security adviser to […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Oceans Have Fewer Kinds Of Fish
washingtonpost.com
Overfishing Among Causes, Study Says
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 29, 2005; A03
The variety of species in the world’s oceans has dropped by as much as 50 percent in the past 50 years, according to a paper published today in the journal Science.
A combination of overfishing, habitat destruction and climate change has narrowed the […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Diocese appeals to Panel of Reference
FORT WORTH: Diocese appeals to Panel of Reference
[SOURCE: Diocese of Fort Worth] The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has appealed
to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Panel of Reference for assistance in a dispute with
the Episcopal Church in the United States over the ordination of women to the priesthood and
episcopate.
The Bishop and Standing Committee of the Diocese […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
New Calls for Coalition Forces to Count Iraqi Casualties
Abid Aslam, OneWorld USThu Jul 28,10:36 PM ET
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 28 (OneWorld) - At least 24,865 Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S.-led coalition began its war in their country but the real figure is unknown because coalition forces, flouting the Geneva Conventions, refuse to aid an accurate count, said a leading medical journal.
”The adamant […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
For combat-weary Marines, each stint adds to the strain
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAYFri Jul 29, 7:20 AM ET
The day the Marines crossed into Iraq, Cpl. James Welter Jr. killed his first man. During his second combat tour, he earned a commendation for leadership skills and coolness under fire, but he brought a nightmare home. Now, with six weeks left in his third fighting […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Pilgrims flock to image of Jesus on tree
1 hour, 53 minutes ago
Christians are flocking to a northwestern Bosnian town to view an image of Jesus Christ that allegedly appeared in a section of a cut tree branch two days ago, Bosnian media reported Friday.
The image resembling Jesus’ face cannot be seen from a close distance but only from a few meters away. […]
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Vatican rejects Israeli complaint
The Vatican has rejected Israel’s criticism that Pope Benedict XVI failed to condemn Palestinian militant attacks against Israel in his recent remarks.
A Vatican statement said it could not condemn every Palestinian strike because Israel’s own response had sometimes violated international law.
Israel had complained that the Pope on Sunday left the country off a list of […]