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...parents, disaffected Roman Catholics, left the church when she was 18, taking her with them. But more than a decade later, after the birth of her daughter, she made a slow creep back to religion, first as a Unitarian and then as a Methodist. But still her soul kept its distance. Then last year her church went on a retreat at the Abbey of the Genesee, a monastery in upstate New York. During a discussion, when a monk (and a recovering alcoholic), repeatedly said, "God loves you," Nolan started sobbing. In a message she later posted on the Internet...
...O157 E. coli is not an easy bug to pick up. It's not an airborne pathogen like a flu virus, and it can have an ill effect only if it's ingested. The vast majority of people who do come down with the infection survive if they are kept hydrated and, in some cases, hospitalized. But up to 1% do die--mostly children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems. In all cases, antibiotics are not only useless but may actually make things worse, causing the bacteria to rupture and spill their toxin even more widely throughout...
Surviving members of the Romanov family--who had come from addresses as diverse as Paris; Oakland, Calif.; New South Wales; and East Sussex--kept a low profile. Those who spoke Russian did so in an archaic St. Petersburg accent that has all but disappeared. Some, such as the mayor of Palm Beach, Fla., Paul Ilinsky, never learned the language. They were restrained in their comments on Nicholas and made no claim to any stake in Russia's political future...
...have a rule at the hedge fund that I run: sell a stock at the first whiff of accounting irregularities. This rule has kept us from losing fortunes, including those we had made in Oxford Health, Sunbeam and Waste Management, to name three recent situations where the stench of overcooked books, and a dramatic decline in stock price, followed closely behind that early whiff. When a stock gets hit because of a product glitch, or a short-term execution problem, I will consider holding on, or even buying more...
...take strong exception to your portrayal of firearms as "murderous little fixtures." One such fixture kept my wife from being raped several years ago. And the claim that firearms are a cause of the U.S.'s high violence rate is misinformed. Some countries with firearms ownership comparable to that of the U.S. have low crime rates, while nations with strict gun control can end up with high crime statistics. The fact is that income, racial tensions and education, among myriad other factors, contribute far more to crime than the availability of firearms. DAVID O. HUNT Sandusky, Ohio...