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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Texas House Committee Has Yet to Vote on Bill Requiring Bible as Textbook

Wednesday, April 04, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas — A state House committee took no action on a bill to require school districts to offer an elective high school-level courses on the Old and New Testaments and use Bibles as text books. The House Public Education Committee considered the bill at a hearing... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Rider University Freshman Dies After Excessive Drinking at Fraternity House

Friday, March 30, 2007 LAWRENCE, N.J. — Prosecutors and police were investigating whether hazing was involved in the death of an 18-year-old student at Rider University who, a day earlier, drank excessively at a fraternity party. Authorities searched the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house on Thursday... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Handle With Care: When Public Figures Get Cancer

Thursday, March 29, 2007 By Susan Estrich LOS ANGELES — Poor Katie Couric. Lest anyone accuse her of going all soft and "Today Show," showing too much cancer widow and mother and too little tough journalist, she erred the other way in her recent interview with John Edwards, and of course is getting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Reality Check: Hair-Raising Performances on 'American Idol'

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 By Anna David Before we get down to discussing the singing, let's focus on what "Idol" viewers really want to know: What could Sanjaya possibly have been thinking? This question isn't directed to his choice of song or use of his vocal cords, for a change, but rather at that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Two passengers rescued more than 4 hours after they fell off Grand Princess

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- More than four hours after they fell from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico, two vacationers were pulled from the water about 150 miles off the Galveston, Texas, coast early Sunday, according to the cruise line and the U.S. Coast Guard. The 22-year-old man and 20-year-old... Sign in to see full entry.

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