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With the short squad that Harvard features, the veterans on the team knew that physical fitness was a priority. The returning players came back from the lay-off in excellent condition, earning the praise of their coach...
...north China met secretly with a senior aide to a Catholic bishop in Hebei province to try to convert the Catholic leadership there. He failed, and the bishopric has warned clergies to remain vigilant against Lightning. In Henan, the main church in Dengfeng county called a meeting of 70 lay leaders for a two-day training session on Lightning's "heresies"?but since then five of the leaders have joined the sect. Lightning "is the greatest danger we face today," says a minister named Li who no longer allows strangers to worship in his church in Zhengzhou city, where...
...typical country church, this one outside Dengfeng county is run by a lay minister who has received no special training on dealing with strange sects. It is poor. The pulpit is a red flounce curtain draped over a desk; broken windows let the swirling central China dust coat the whitewashed walls. The biggest single expenditure this year was the $25 the congregation gave its most desperate members to celebrate the lunar new year. Every Sunday 150 peasants crowd onto low wooden benches to receive the Word, including a gray-haired woman known as Granny...
...Crimson ended last year with a defeat of then-No. 1 Dartmouth in the first annual NCAA Women’s Frozen Four, to lay claim to third place in the country. But like every year, Harvard has had to deal with the loss of many key players to graduation—this year, though, the problem is bigger because of the Olympics...
It’s not only NASA that pays people to sleep in bed for long periods of time. The European Space Agency is seeking 14 men to lay in bed for 90 days...