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Book reviews: The Vagrants | UFO In Her Eyes (The Scotsman)

Two contrasting visions present equally damning portraits of totalitarian China, writes Stuart Kelly

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Economic Lessons From Lenin?s Seer (New York Times)

Nikolai Kondratieff?s theory: capitalist economies are fated to go through regular and predictable cycles, inevitably culminating in a depression.

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Remembering Rutherford: North Maple property tells interesting tales (Daily News Journal)

When the Methodist church moved from its first home on North Maple, most of the churchyard graves were also moved, but a number of the deceased continued to lie beneath the cotton gins, and later beneath the feet of the “Southern magnolias,” the Tigers, the utility linemen and public employees.

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12 injured in Bihar train collision (Calcutta News)

At least 12 people were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train in Bihar’s Motihari district early Saturday morning, the second accident within 24 hours.

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Bihar mother kills daughter to appease deity (New Kerala)

Patna, Feb 14 : In a bizarre occult ritual, a 10-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her mother and brother in a Bihar village to appease a deity, a police officer said Saturday.

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Bihar mother kills daughter to appease god (Deccan Herald)

Sunita Kumari was killed in Hardoravara village in Siwan district Friday after occult practitioner Harendra Sah asked the victim’s mother…

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Bihar: Woman kills daughter to appease deity (The Times of India)

In a bizarre occult ritual, a 10-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her mother and brother in a Bihar village to appease a Hindu god, a police officer said on Saturday.

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Bishop controversy prompts Austrian Catholics to meet (Detroit Free Press)

VIENNA — Vienna’s Roman Catholic archdiocese says the country’s bishops will meet to discuss widespread objections to the Vatican’s decision to promote a conservative pastor who suggested Hurricane Katrina was provoked by sin.

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Senior Chhattisgarh BJP leader shot dead (Calcutta News)

Unidentified assailants gunned down a senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Chhattisgarh late Friday night, police said. Rajendra Jain was shot dead in his house at Kansabel block in Jashpur district, some 450 km from capital Raipur.

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Spout Off (Cape May County Herald)

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject: Installing Illegal Presidents!

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A response to my critics (Guardian Unlimited)

The question: Where does science end and ‘magic’ begin? Magic is an attempt to control and forecast natural events. Sir James Frazer distinguished two categories. First, sympathetic magic by similarity: like produces like. For example, manipulating a model of something is believed to give power over that which is modelled. Second, magic by contact or contagion: objects that were once …

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Amazing footage of UFO filmed above British coastline by holidaymakers (Daily Mail: World News)

Incredible video footage of a UFO hovering and moving up and down at high speed above the British coastline has caused a stir among experts.

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Austria: Priests criticize pope’s bishop pick (AP via Yahoo! News)

A group of Austrian priests has vehemently criticized Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to promote an ultraconservative pastor who suggested Hurricane Katrina was provoked by sin in New Orleans, the group’s head said Wednesday.

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Austria: Priests criticize pope’s bishop pick (The Charlotte Observer)

(By VERONIKA OLEKSYN, Associated Press Writer) A group of Austrian priests has vehemently criticized Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to promote an ultraconservative pastor who suggested Hurricane Katrina was provoked by sin in New Orleans, the group’s head said Wednesday. The Vatican announced Jan. 31 that the Rev. Gerhard Maria Wagner, 54, would become auxiliary bishop in Linz, the capital of …

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Bishop pick by Pope Benedict XVI worries some Catholics (Detroit Free Press)

VIENNA — A group of Austrian priests has vehemently criticized Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to promote an ultraconservative pastor who suggested Hurricane Katrina was provoked by sin in New Orleans, the group’s head said today.

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