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...reports a few months ago about experiments in which two groups of hospital patients: one was prayed for, one wasn't. The results showed that it didn't seem to make a difference. I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave. You know what we've done in this country? We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want...
...would like to begin this column by commending Fun Czar John T. Drake ’06 for pulling off a memorable fall event this past Sunday: Oktoberfest. The food was great, D.A. rode the ferris wheel until he got sick, and our favorite Peruvian wind ensemble performed. Yet despite these successes, the event fell short in two critical respects. First off, the food stands were needlessly charging students for their assorted sundries. This gouging was an unqualified outrage, given all of the University Hall funds that must have gone into the event; we wonder if Drake might not benefit...
...Tammy Lowery couldn't see the blood vessels rupturing in her gut, but the way she was feeling, she didn't have to. Lowery had been sick for five days, growing steadily worse as the week wore on. First had come the stomach pains. Then the bloody diarrhea. Then the paralyzing cramps. She had laid off food for a while, figuring the problem would pass. It didn't. Finally, as July 4 approached-when Lowery should have been at the Alpine, Wyoming, gift shop where she works, preparing for the crush of campers and tourists who make the Independence...
...number of people with access to a latrine in Banja district rose to 86% today from 3% in 2001. Toilets became status symbols. "Some people are building latrines nicer than their houses," says Gabeyew Tarekegn, who lives in a nearby village. Worku says that his children have been sick less often since the family began using the latrine and washing their hands afterward. At the Gafft Primary School, amid the eucalyptus trees of Adet, up to 40% of the students used to suffer regular diarrhea attacks, especially after the rainy season when sewage seeps into water supplies. "If the students...
...understood what the e-mail meant, which is why he forwarded it in August 2005 to the office of Louisiana Congressman Rodney Alexander, who had sponsored him for the page program and who was alarmed enough to take his concern to Boehner. "This freaked me out," the teenager wrote. "Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick...