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Minister sees divine in everyday struggles (Boston Globe)
RUPERT, Vt. - Who knows? The words are Frederick Buechner's mantra. Over the course of an hourlong chat with the writer and Presbyterian minister in his kitchen, they recur any number of times in response to questions about his faith and theology. Dogmatic religious believers would dismiss the two words as the warning shot of doubt. But for Buechner, it ...
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Review: Review: Space on the Mall (The Space Review)
The 50th anniversary of NASA offers a tremendous hook for publicity for the space agency, an opportunity to celebrate what it has accomplished and—perhaps more importantly, given the transitions the agency is undergoing—what it plans to do in the future.
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An unusual anniversary in their son's life (Chicago Tribune)
Mom, Dad to mark the day they made lifesaving decision for boy with severe disease On June 25, 1999, a Chicago couple faced a life-or-death choice: Should they put their ailing 5-month-old son on a ventilator or let him die? Doctors predicted Malachi, who has spinal muscular atrophy, would live only two years. That was nine years ago.
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Opening Bell: A Ground Zero Black Hole (Columbia Journalism Review)
WTC delayed yet again; Hoarding hurts food prices; Is this bear ‘94 or ‘74? etc.
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Briefs (July 3) (Needham Times)
Photography contest; Library Children's Department blog; Rosemary Pool opening; more
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Chandler's celebrates birthday by giving gift (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
HUNTINGTON -- Dottie Farhat cupped her hand over her mouth and closed her eyes. Then the tears came. But this time, for the Huntington woman who has had her share of struggle this year, the tears were happy ones. Farhat will be the recipient of a new, roughly $12,000 kitchen from Chandler's Plywood Products.
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Green Cities / Good old trees get the chop (Haaretz Daily)
Government officials aren't supposed to express their emotions in the letters they send to official bodies, but Yisrael Galon of the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry simply could not restrain himself. For many years he has been acting tirelessly to preserve ancient trees.
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Out of the Files (The Naperville Sun)
June 26, 1958
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20 years later... donated kidney still works (The Herald News)
Most people celebrate their wedding anniversaries, but Larry Laabs and his sister, Lori Davis, celebrate an anniversary that's a bit more unusual - the day she donated one of her kidneys to him.
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Homecoming has a "warm, homey feel' (The Standard-Times)
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the original Fairhaven Homecoming, a celebration that nowadays transforms the center with displays, goods and entertainment to bring people together.
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