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RESIGNED. Ted Haggard, 50, as president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals; amid allegations that he paid a male prostitute for sex and bought methamphetamine; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Escort Michael Jones told a Denver radio station that he had had a three-year relationship with Haggard--who last year was named one of America's 25 most influential Evangelicals by TIME--saying he wanted to expose the "hypocrisy" of the pastor, who has led the battle against gay marriage in Colorado. Haggard first claimed he did not know Jones. Then he admitted buying a massage...
Pyongyang softens amid sanctions...
HATCHERY In Kikori's rainforest, an unnamed male frog tends eggs laid in hollowed-out vines . LISTEN? It was just after midnight when frog researcher Steve Richards heard a strange melodious whistle amid the patter of rain in the Papua New Guinea cloud forest. The sound swept away the Australian zoologist's exhaustion as he struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying...
...program was launched before The Crimson discontinued two editorial-page series amid evidence that the authors had lifted material from other sources—but after plagiarism allegations against novelist Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 led her publisher to pull her book from the shelves...
...dead preoccupy Mexico. The media have been rife with editorials complaining that the Fox government did not respond to the protests in Oaxaca until an American was killed. More than a dozen Mexicans had died in earlier incidents amid the protests; a 15-year-old boy was killed in another clash with the federal police on Monday. But on the streets of Oaxaca, all the dead share the same nationality, even the dead American. A 76-year-old Indian woman approaches one of Will's altars and says, "This is not about politics. Today we honor death. This poor young...