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• God vs. doctor: 1 in 2 say prayer saves the dying

  Mon Aug 18, 2008
  • Richard Dawkins sights an experiment in his book in which one group of patients was prayed for and not told, one was not prayed for and not told, and one group was prayed for and told that they were being prayed for.

• Dewey? At This Library With a Very Different Outlook, They Don’t

  Sat Jul 14, 2007
  • Personally, I'd rather have a universal communication system than trying to guess whether this librarian thinks my book is "religion" or "world history." It'd make research impossible. And why wouldn't the same computer search work with the library of congress system?

• Dewey? At This Library With a Very Different Outlook, They Don’t

  Sat Jul 14, 2007
  • I'd hate to see them when the computer crashes.

• President Bush Makes A Little Girl Cry

  Wed Jul 11, 2007
  • Oh, come on, most of us would have done the same when hit with that level question from a 13-year-old kid.

• Some Newsviners are a bit too biased

  Thu Jul 12, 2007
  • Its pathetic to see so many people still believe that finding scapegoats for increasing terrorist attacks can do the job after all they have seen over the last decade or so. Yes, indeed it is. Why are we in Iraq again?

• Some Newsviners are a bit too biased

  Thu Jul 12, 2007
  • I agree it goes on on both sides. It's just that only the left seems to make an issue out of if constantly by labelling it a 'noise machine'. Then turning a blind eye to the same sort of structure on their side that they are participating in.

• Some Newsviners are a bit too biased

  Thu Jul 12, 2007
  • Substance serves to convince much more effectively than an appeal to emotion. All current social and political evidence to the contrary...

• Some Newsviners are a bit too biased

  Thu Jul 12, 2007
  • Note I didn't say you didn't visit them, I said you didn't post on them. So what? People stumble onto the articles they happen to run into that day. We don't invalidate people's posts just because they're not playing mediator on every message board you happen to visit.

• Girl, 4, Called 911 Nearly 300 Times

  Thu Jul 5, 2007
  • It's hard for some of us to accept, but cell phones are becoming as common in kids' lives today as tv was in ours. Honestly, I don't like it either, but I can't come up with a decent justification for my disapproval.

• Wading Pool Drain Sucks Out Girl's Organ

  Thu Jul 5, 2007
  • I appreciate that you want to warn parents, but some things aren't "better safe than sorry." It freaks me out how protective parents are these days, and I don't think we need to add to the list of everyday household behaviors that kids and parents should have to be scared of.