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...less likely. By assigning him children from a first marriage, it answered the question of who Jesus' siblings were. The Protevangelium portrays Joseph's initial agitation with Mary far more fully than Scripture. It also tells how the dismayed High Priest later puts them both through a trial by ordeal (they must drink a potentially lethal "water of conviction") before he accepts that the pregnant Mary is still a virgin. A bright light obscures Joseph's view of the birth, but the Protevangelium has already assigned him a beautiful epiphany, beginning, "I ... was walking, and I walked...
...facing the assured Blair during parliament's weekly Prime Minister's Question Time. Britons prize debating skills and toughness of performance in the legislature as among the most desirable attributes for their leaders. To the relief of the Tories, Cameron-their fourth leader since Blair took office- handled his ordeal with ease and confidence. Although he says he want to move away from confrontational partisanship and promised to back Labor's education reforms, he delighted his party by responding to Blair on a policy disagreement, "I want to talk about the future-you were the future, once...
After a death, don't many people see the holidays as an ordeal to get through? They may, but that's better than not having a gathering at all. It's fine if they want to shift where and how they celebrate, as long as the people they care about are with them--because it's the human connection that heals and makes a family...
...Semlow, which was attacked in late June as it carried 850 tons of rice from the World Food Program (WFP) that was destined for hungry Somalis. Now back in his home country of Sri Lanka, Mahalingam, 58, related to TIME the saga of his 101-day ordeal as a captive of Somali pirates. It began, he says, with "the flash of 5 to 10 shots. Straightaway I knew it must be pirates." Before he could issue a distress signal, three fiber-glass speedboats with powerful outboard motors pulled alongside the Semlow. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder...
...These days Beddoe, 33, spends much of her time at home in Melbourne reading up on psychiatry while working on a book about her ordeal. She's certain that what made her sick were side effects of the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). A pharmaceutical phenomenon that began with fluoxetine (Prozac) in the late 1980s, the SSRIs rode a wave of gushing publicity to usurp the older antidepressants, the tricyclics, and reap a fortune for their makers: worldwide sales now exceed $20 billion a year. But the honeymoon is over. Even doctors...