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Afghan medical mission ends in death for 10
By KATHY GANNON KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — They hiked for more than 10 hours over rugged mountains - unarmed and without security - to bring medical care to isolated Afghan villagers until their humanitarian mission took a tragic turn. Ten members of the Christian medical team - six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a [...]
Pleasure: the impossible moment of delight
By Philip Hensher One day in the early years of the century, Siegmund Freud observed his 18-month-old grandson playing a game of his own invention with a cotton reel. The child tossed it away from him, saying “Oo-oo-oo”. Freud, after some thought, concluded that he was saying “fort”, or “away”. He then drew it back [...]
Gasoline from Thin Air?
An enzyme found in the roots of soybeans could be the key to cars that run on air. Vanadium nitrogenase, an enzyme that normally produces ammonia from nitrogen gas, can also convert carbon monoxide (CO), a common industrial byproduct, into propane, the blue-flamed gas found on stoves across America. While scientists caution the research is [...]
Iranian under protection after release in Turkey
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer was under European diplomatic protection Friday after Turkish authorities released him from a detention center for illegal immigrants. Mohammad Mostafaei had barely made it to his hotel in Istanbul before diplomatic officials rushed to the scene and announced he was not safe. They swept him away in a car [...]
Six - Eight of the 10 Primitive Persecutions
Sixth Persecution, under Maximinus, A. D. 235. A. D. 235, was in the time of Maximinus. In Cappadocia, the president, Seremianus, did all he could to exterminate the christians from that province. The principal persons who perished under this reign were Pontianus, bishop of Rome; Anteros, a Grecian, his successor, who gave offence to the [...]
US judge orders Russian government to return Jewish library
A federal judge in Washington, DC has issued a ruling against the Russian government for its refusal to return a library of historic books and documents to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The documents seized by the Nazis were transferred by the Soviet Red Army as war booty to the Russian State Military Archive. In an order [...]