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...that of a passive bystander. “The Bible is too important to be left just to divinity students,” he explains passionately. “They’ll get it one way or another. So when someone like you falls into my orbit, I’m delighted.” I can’t keep the skepticism off of my face as I think how much more meaningful these classes must be to religious students. As if sensing my doubt, Gomes expands, “You chose this course, in place of other...
...They alternate as narrators, each with a distinct voice and backstory. Their club meets in the opening chapters and spring-boards each plot, as babysitting dates are made and followed through in subsequent chapters. Around the central members, a huge, busy network of families, teachers and innumerable baby-sittees orbit, forming a long, evolving story kept up with admirable thoroughness...
...Numbers 16 candidates on a new Russian TV show will have a shot at winning a trip to space. The winner must pass cosmonaut medical tests and endure Survivor-style competitions for the chance at a week in orbit 75% is the rise in women over 65 who drink heavily compared with a decade ago, according to a new British study 130 million cell phones will be discarded each year by 2005, according to a study funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 140 new tree frog species were discovered during a survey of Sri Lanka's rain forests...
...planetary rings. They speculate that a large asteroid hit the Earth at an oblique angle and plowed across the surface for some distance before ricocheting away. In the process, the theory goes, it sprayed molten and vaporized Earth and asteroid chunks into space, where some pieces went into orbit and eventually formed an opaque ring...
...Bush as telling a political rally that the Democratic Senate was "not interested in the security of the American people." Bush had been talking about a stalled homeland-security bill, but the narrow criticism would instantly have a wider and damaging resonance. And that's what sent Daschle into orbit. Punching the air at times, his voice cracking into an infuriated whisper, Daschle demanded an apology. "We ought not to politicize the rhetoric about war and life and death," he said. "This has got to end, Mr. President." Down at the White House, the President was said to be confused...