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...altar, at which they can practice setting up for church services with small candles, prayer books and Bibles. In a Bible lesson on Creation, they played with sand to represent God's earth and crawled through a tent to touch the "heavens" painted on its ceiling. Says Nicole Botkin, the church's Christian-education supervisor: "Parents help children with development in motor skills and language during the first years, so why not teach spirituality as well...
...fertilized eggs are subjected to intense DNA analysis. Only those that pass the test are implanted. Says Dr. Jeffrey Botkin, a University of Utah pediatrics professor: "Instead of aborting a fetus, you're flushing down a bunch of 16-cell embryos--which, to a lot of folks [who oppose abortion], is a lot less of a problem...
...last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...
...January 1982, however, Vashchenko and her more robust mother Augustina, 53, began a hunger strike. After a month Lidiya, whose weight had dropped to 84 Ibs., became so weak that she agreed to be taken to Moscow's Botkin Hospital and nursed back to health. Two weeks later, she returned to Chernogorsk. There, determined to test the government's promise, she applied to the local authorities for permission to leave...
When Lidiya Vashchenko, 30, was admitted to Moscow's Botkin Hospital Jan. 30, her weight had dropped from 115 Ibs. to 84 Ibs., and she was dehydrated. Still she refused to eat until doctors threatened force-feeding. A visitor from the Illinois-based Christian Legal Society last week reported that Vashchenko was out of intensive care and "in good spirits...