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...stem-cell colonies from discarded embryos. When scientists come to Bush saying the federally approved cell lines show promise but they need more cell lines, by what argument will he be able to say no? "I have made this decision with great care," Bush said in his address. "I pray it is the right one." It may be, at least for a little while...
...grapple with/But basically she kept it all inside.../Dear God, it's all so tragic/And I'll never have the chance to feel the closure/That I ultimately need." Carey then soars into a passage that might be a request or a requiem: "Lord, I pray she's found some peace/And her soul's somewhere at ease...
...Carolyn's killers planned to pray to another Hindu deity that November night, the fearsome Kali, goddess of destruction. A dilapidated temple devoted to Kali lies a few hundred meters from where Carolyn was strangled, just beyond her grave, which was finally discovered by police a few weeks ago after a tip-off. There, in a lean-to fashioned from a corrugated-iron roof and four wooden posts, the only decoration a single spear stuck into the raw earth, Shanmugavela and the three other killers conducted a gruesome set of rites upon Carolyn's corpse, an otherworldly ceremony they believed...
...North Sea. A surveillance camera follows his movements at all times and a prison guard passes by his cell every 20 minutes. He has his own shower and toilet, a radio and satellite TV. He can work out in the center's gym, study in the library or pray in the religion room...
...watch her all night long. I watch fretfully for signs of twitching or abnormal breathing, gratefully for her living presence. I say my prayers over and over. Long ago I promised not to pray any more for insubstantial things-a Red Sox win, for instance, even a crucial Red Sox win-but to reserve any entreaties for the truly important stuff. I reflect now, as I gaze at Caroline with a love deeper than that I experienced when she was born, that I've been doing a lot of asking in the last year, what with all these hospital visits...