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...Intra-Christian recrimination also arose around the shocking death last November of Bonnie Witherall, 31, a nurse's assistant at the Christian and Missionary Alliance pre-natal clinic in Sidon, Lebanon, a facility funded partly by Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse organization. One morning as she arrived to open the clinic, an unknown assailant shot her three times in the head. Her murder may have been simple anti-Americanism, since it followed one of Osama bin Laden's bellicose edicts. But the New York Times reported that members of the Alliance--which flew a banner emblazoned with the Arabic...
While the organizers emphasized the charitable nature of the auction, they also performed an invaluable service to the social lives of many Jewish undergraduates. Lippin speculated that the high value placed upon intra-religious dating in many Jewish families contributed to the success of the event. Jewish students were more willing to pay big bucks to date someone with whom they share a religion, an ethnicity and a culture. While Lippin admitted that the Jewish dating scene on campus is limited, he said he believes that those limitations only “force you to look harder within the community...
Another problem for the Crimson is depth. While Harvard had a significant height advantage over Rivier, its roster of nine players was dwarfed by the Raiders’ 15. One of the challenges of having only nine players on the roster is the inability to field two teams for intra-squad scrimmages...
...resolutions? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that moderate exercise can be crucial for postmenopausal women who want to lower their risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and some cancers. Not only does exercise promote good health overall but it also reduces intra-abdominal fat deposits--fat stored around the organs deep within the abdomen--that are a hidden risk factor for many chronic illnesses...
...about 45 minutes a day. At the end of a year, the women had lost weight--a modest 3 lbs. on average--but, more important, C.T. scans showed they had lost up to 6.9% of the fat in their middles. Nonexercisers, by comparison, neither lost weight nor reduced intra-abdominal...