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...story involves so many miracles - plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, manna from heaven, the giving of the Ten Commandments - that some critics feel the whole story has the flavor of pure myth. A massive exodus that led to the drowning of Pharaoh's army, says Father Anthony Axe, Bible lecturer at Jerusalem's Ecole Biblique, would have reverberated politically and economically through the entire region. And considering that artifacts from as far back as the late Stone Age have turned up in the Sinai , it is perplexing that no evidence of the Israelites' passage has been found. William...
...Mayes-Jones success story is no manna from heaven. It is the fruit of a long, gritty battle to reform the Los Angeles department of child services. Only five years ago, the county was fighting a lawsuit by public-interest groups over a bureaucracy so lax that many abused children were not even visited once a month, the state's legal minimum. "Kids were dying because they were not adequately supervised," says Carole Shauffer, director of the San Francisco-based Youth Law Center. "Foster parents had to make do with 'drive-by visits': they would bring the kids...
...with my brother, carrying a box of 27 smart cards, each of which is loaded up with secret numbers that makes it worth a million Simoleons. I go over and look out the skybox window: 27 Americans are congregated down on the 50-yard line, waiting for their mathematical manna to descend from heaven. They are just the demographic cross section that my brother was hoping for. You'd never guess they were all secretly citizens of the First Distributed Republic...
That line had some effect. For Saddam, the U.S. hit on the air-raid shelter that, Baghdad said, killed several hundred civilians was manna from propaganda heaven. For millions of people around the world, pictures of the broken bodies dug out of the rubble drove home the horror of a war that until then had seemed, at least on the TV screens, to be rather tame. One of the minor mysteries of the statement about potential withdrawal, in fact, was why Iraq diverted attention away from the civilian deaths before the reaction to them had quite built to a climax...
HUCTW held elections for several other positions last week, and most of them were also uncontested, said Manna. But Kromm said this was only because union workers wanted to preserve unity...