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Why Power and Prostitution Go Together

 Email This Post March 12, 2008 – 6:06 pm

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's alleged involvement in a prostitution ring has sent some heads spinning. The possible acts of impropriety run counter to the politician's hard-line career commitment to fighting corruption. The obvious question on many minds: What was he thinking?

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Vietnam to launch 1st satellite

 Email This Post March 12, 2008 – 6:04 pm

Vietnam is preparing to launch its first satellite, hoping to improve the country's telecommunications to keep pace with its rapid economic development, officials said Wednesday. Vinasat No. 1 is scheduled to be launched April 12 from Kourou spaceport in South America, and will be ready for use in May, Nguyen Ba Thuoc, vice general director of state-owned Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Corp., or VNPT, told reporters.

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Second Muslim elected to Congress

 Email This Post March 12, 2008 – 6:02 pm

Indiana voters on Tuesday elected a Muslim to Congress, only the second of that faith chosen in U.S. history. Andre Carson, grandson of the late Democrat Rep. Julia Carson, was elected to serve the balance of her term in the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election.

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26 percent of female teens have a sexually transmitted disease, study finds

 Email This Post March 12, 2008 – 5:32 pm

A first-of-its-kind federal study showing 26 percent of American female teens have at least one sexually transmitted disease brought mixed reaction from health care professionals Tuesday, with some saying the findings were disturbing - but not necessarily surprising.

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Ad Wars: Google’s Green Light

 Email This Post March 12, 2008 – 5:31 pm

The long-awaited completion of Google's $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick will kick off a new online advertising battle that may rage for years to come. Yet it may also take years for the search giant to gain a foothold in what's shaping up as the next front in the $20 billion online ad industry: the resurgence of display ads, those colorful but oft-ignored "banners" and videos that run along the tops and sides of Web pages.

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Archbishop gives warning of ‘new sins’

 Email This Post March 12, 2008 – 5:17 pm

As if the seven deadly sins were not enough, a Vatican official has suggested more transgressions to confess. Illegal-drug use, genetic manipulation, polluting the environment and a variety of social and economic injustices are today's "new sins," said Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary — a Vatican body that grants absolutions and issues decisions on matters of conscience.

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Anne Rice continues story of Jesus in her latest book

 Email This Post March 10, 2008 – 2:44 pm

New Orleans has always offered an intriguing blend of real and imagined literary landscapes, and many of its most beloved haunts are the creations and homes of novelist Anne Rice.

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Presbyterian Candidates Protest Affirmed Ban on Gay Ordination

 Email This Post March 9, 2008 – 11:46 am

Candidates for clergy ordination in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) denounced recent church court decisions that upheld the denomination's ban against ordaining practicing homosexuals.

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Woman jailed for ‘worshipping tea pot’

 Email This Post March 9, 2008 – 11:45 am

Kamariah Ali, a 57 year old former teacher, was arrested in 2005 when the government of the Muslim majority country demolished the two storey high sacred tea pot and other infrastructure of the "heretical" Sky Kingdom cult.

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McCain rejects anti-Catholic views

 Email This Post March 9, 2008 – 11:44 am

Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday repudiated any views of a prominent televangelist who endorsed him last month "if they are anti-Catholic or offensive to Catholics."

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