In these tough economic times, Santa Claus has to do a lot more than dress up in a red suit and promise the world to long lines of eager-eyed children; these days a good Santa has to know how to gently set limits to what kids can expect to find on Christmas morning.
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Church officials are planning to review the case of an 18 year-old Catholic Pakistani girl named Mariah Manisha who was shot to death for refusing to submit to rape, a forced marriage and conversion to Islam.
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Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the University of Georgia (UGA) have developed an experimental cancer vaccine that reduced tumors by 80 percent in mice models that mimicked most pancreatic and breast cancers, even those that were resistant to standard treatments.
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A new report by the Parents Television Council (PTC) has found that the top four reality shows on
MTV -
Jersey Shore, Real World, Teen Mom 2 and
16 and Pregnant are teaching young girls that it's hip to be self-denigrating, mean-spirited and promiscuous.
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Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), is using his time in prison to terrorize his flock by demanding that they promulgate a bizarre series of doomsday prophecies and ordering them to cease having sex and to turn over all assets to the community or face instant excommunication.
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Today's woman is smart, sophisticated, and adept at multi-tasking, but when she steps into a wedding dress for the first time, most become aware for the first time of the beauty of being woman.
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Families facing hard times this Christmas are getting some unexpected relief in the form of "Secret Santas" who have been popping up all over the U.S., mostly at Kmart stores, where they secretly pay off the layaway accounts for cash-strapped families.
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The priests and parishioners at St. Raymond's parish in Downey, California staged an "Occupy Christmas" event at a busy local mall where they fell on their knees in the middle of the mall and began to reverence the Eucharist.
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The U.S. Senate has voted to block President Obama's appointment of Mari Carmen Aponte as ambassador to El Salvador because of her attempts to push homosexual values on the country.
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A new report released yesterday reveals that 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, amounting to more than 12 million men and women per year.
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