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...told her, 'Nobody has any idea,'" recalls Blackburn. "And then I said, 'Let's have a look.'" They gathered a team of psychologists and biologists and recruited 58 women ranging in age from 20 to 50. Thirty-nine of the women were the primary caregivers for a child chronically ill with cerebral palsy, autism or some other serious disorder; the rest had healthy kids. The researchers gave all the mothers a standard test that measured how stressed out they had been feeling during the previous month. Then they drew blood and examined peripheral blood mononuclear cells, part of the body...
Evanston, Ill...
Katie's brother Tyler, 6, is more at ease with all this. He obligingly pulls on the robe, cord belt and headdress worn by dozens of predecessor shepherds over years of Christmas pageants here at the First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights, Ill. "Now, what do shepherds do?" asks pageant director Phyllis Green. "They protect their sheep," he says promptly. His older brother Drew, who at 8 has two years more of this particular story under his shepherd's belt, chimes in, "And the angels come...
...accounts from the next century. Beyond such testimony, there are literary tools used to weigh plausibility. Were the Christian narratives written close after the events? Were there many talkative eyewitnesses? Do they agree? The details of Jesus' birth--in a humble place attended by only a few--are ill suited to the first two criteria. Mark and John do not tell about the Nativity at all. And despite agreeing on the big ideas, Matthew and Luke diverge in conspicuous ways on details of the event. In Matthew's Nativity, the angelic Annunciation is made to Joseph while Luke...
APPOINTED. WILTON D. GREGORY, 57, head of the Belleville, Ill., diocese and the first black president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; as the new Archbishop of Atlanta, signaling his continued favor with the Vatican; by Pope John Paul II. Gregory's leadership during the church's sex-abuse crisis included establishing a policy on how to respond to abuse allegations and a lay panel to help enforce...