Word: vigilancy
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Pilgrims to Mecca stand in vigil during the hajj...
...Vigil participants warmed their hands by holding plastic cups of water containing vanilla-scented candles, one for each victim...
Georgia was enduring its worst drought in a century, and it had already asked President Bush and the Supreme Court for relief. So on Nov. 13, Republican Governor Sonny Perdue appealed to a higher power, hosting a statehouse vigil to "pray up a storm," begging God to bring the rain he had withheld for 14 months...
...answer, because "the issue at the heart of our drought is a lack of rain," she was wrong. The issue is a lack of water, and the best way to retain more is to consume less--with less lawn-sprinkling, car-washing, irrigating and sprawl. At Perdue's vigil, the Rev. Gil Watson acknowledged that "we have not been good stewards of our water," and even Perdue suggested that God was trying to "get our attention" for failing to do "all we could do in conservation...
...During the two weeks before the vigil, a 13-year-old was shot and killed outside his home in Dorchester and a Pop Warner football coach was shot in the leg on the basketball court that the BSA chose as the scene for its press conference...