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...suit wasn't going to grade us and his stories weren't going to help us pass our board exams. It showed; the general surgery team fidgeted and rocked as he spoke to us at early Saturday morning "guest-attending rounds." He was a little stooped and white-haired, but no geezer. He wasn't one of our Ivy league professors of surgery, specialists in their elite yet narrow fields, but rather a 70-year-old doctor who had gone to our medical school before there was penicillin. He'd lived out his career someplace in Western New York - someplace...
Before the Web, PWs say they had little chance to connect and commune. "There weren't networks," says Becky Hunter, 55, wife of the well-known pastor Joel Hunter of Orlando-based Northland, a Church Distributed. "There were denominational groups and retreat-type things." The Web, she says, offers more immediate and constant support. Hunter is president of the GPWN, spun off from the Global Pastors Network five years ago. "When we started researching other resources, we found there was just remarkably little available for the wife of the pastor. Our issues were so similar yet so private"--issues that...
...according to Jollibee, is clearly a place of childlike optimism. Jollibee's two most popular items are called the Yumburger and the Chickenjoy. The Yumburger has a weird, plasticky dollop of French dressing in the middle. The crisped-up French fries are dry inside and taste as if they weren't just double fried but dunked in oil four or five times. The fried chicken is halfway decent, but the inflated, happy fakeness of Jollibee makes you feel that the only American its Filipino owners have ever seen is Pamela Anderson...
...victory for the freedom of ideas. It even made a minor celebrity of Justice Peter Smith when he cheekily embedded a coded message into his written decision. This time around, few knew (or cared) that the appeal was even taking place, Brown didn't testify and the judges weren't in a playful mood...
...Like the original High Court judge, the appeal court judges noted that the theories weren't all unique to Baigent and Leigh either. Some of the ideas they say Brown copied from them are based on historical facts and hypotheses that they culled from various other sources...