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In Bradenton, Florida, Palestinian researcher Mazen Al-Najjar just completed his second year of confinement without being told the evidence against him. Al-Najjar, a U.S. resident for 15 years with three American-born children, faces deportation for some sort of association with a terrorist group, the nature of which the Justice Department has repeatedly refused to disclose, citing national security.
Latest Religious Messages
Ten days apart in April, Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority and the official newspaper of the Catholic archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, issued rulings that ads extolling the miraculous nature of religion or prayer were deceptive and could no longer be published under their auspices. The British organization’s spokesman said a church advertising miracles would have to provide proof “just like a company that makes washing powder,” and the diocese’s newspaper banned ads thanking particular saints for answering prayers.
The New PTA
Pam Reno of Cold Springs, Nevada, told reporters that she hopes to find a surrogate mother to have her grandchild, using frozen sperm retrieved from the body of her 20-year-old son, who died in September. The procedure is awaiting an ethics panel decision by the Northern Nevada Fertility Center. Reno’s son died playing Russian roulette with his friends.
