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...support staff are themselves previous patients, victims of the country's chronic warfare. The nonpartisan Emergency had been operating a hospital in Kabul as well, but shut it down in May after a raid by the Taliban religious police, in which both foreign and Afghan staff members were beaten up. The reason: men and women were not properly segregated in the dining hall...
...Lightning is the most aggressive Christian sect to emerge in China since the revolution, but it follows a beaten path. In the decades before the communists swept to power in 1949, a Chinese missionary known as Watchman Nee built his congregation, the Little Flock, to 300,000 followers in central China. The sect's emphasis on decentralized congregations launched a home-church movement that helped Christianity survive communist repression. Yet as Little Flock congregations became isolated, they splintered into separate groups. The Shouters, for instance, rewrote the Lord's Prayer to read simply, "Oh, Lord Jesus," and taught followers...
Harvard had not beaten UMass in over five years...
...Beating Penn is a big game because they have been doing well in the Ivies this year, and we want to show that we belong at the top of the Ivies even though we were beaten in two games,” Totman said...
...peaceful neighbors; we're never going to see watch towers along the 49th parallel. Each year, says Newland, there are 489 million border crossings into the U.S., involving 127 million passenger vehicles; each year, 820,000 planes and 250,000 ships enter U.S. airspace or waters. However terrorism is beaten, it won't be by American border controls...