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...random testing for deterring theft. Last week the Senate passed a bill limiting the use of polygraphs in job screening for all workers except security guards and those with access to controlled substances. The new law was necessary, said Senator Edward Kennedy, to protect people from "20th century witchcraft . . . inaccurate instruments of intimidation." An employer could still test a worker reasonably suspected of wrongdoing. But the bill would prohibit firing or disciplining an employee solely on the basis of a polygraph test -- or a refusal to take...
...violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very old age in ancient Rome. Medieval Theologian Albertus Magnus, whose green thumb led to charges of witchcraft, died at 87, while one of America's Founding Gardeners, Thomas Jefferson, lived...
Gelinas said that local ministers have suggested that the bombing might be connected to devil worship or witchcraft cults which often use animals parts in their rituals...
...chested and armed with nothing more than sticks and rocks. These warriors were following the orders of a 27-year-old self-styled "priestess" known as Mama Alice, who was trying to overthrow the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni with an odd mixture of Christian theology and African witchcraft. Believers in her Holy Spirit Movement, she told followers, could ward off enemy bullets by coating themselves with the oil of a local tree and could lob stones that would magically explode like grenades in battle...
...Wicca piques your interest, go talk to someone at Arsenic and Old Lace, which also posts notices of classes and seminars on magic and the occult in its windows. Or make a pilgrimage to the home of witchcraft in the United States, Salem, which is just an hour's drive to the north, and visit Crow Haven Corner, an occult store run by Laurie Cabot's daughter...