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A spacious loft unit inside of a West Town building built in 1884, offers rare city views and a great rooftop deck for entertaining.The 1 bedroom, 1-bath home offers a bright and open concept timber loft with exposed beams throughout the home. The kitchen and bathroom were recently remodeled and upgraded just in time for new owners to enjoy.More...




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Source: Judge's Ten Commandments Poster Ruled Unconstitutional

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Discussions about science and religion too often resemble one team lining up against the other. In this country, the science-religion interaction can be as aggressive as NFL football. Sometimes, however, a few serious players come onto the field and refuse to take a side. This disrupts the polarized conflict, and it reminds us that the scientific and religious communities are not opposing teams, and do share common interests and concerns.Richard Cizik, the former top lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, co-founded the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good in 2010. A main goal of his group is "to articulate a new form of engagement that doesn't demonize science or scientists."More...




Source: Exploring the Middle Ground Between Science and Religion

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Ben Roethlisberger has already won two Lombardi Trophies and is making his third career Super Bowl appearance on Sunday. He is also 10-2 in the playoffs and is part of one of the greatest plays in Super Bowl history. So is Big Ben a Hall of Famer already?Kurt Warner says no.More...




Source: Kurt Warner: Ben Roethlisberger Not Hall Of Famer Yet

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A Chicago man was hospitalized early Friday after he was shot and robbed of his snowblower on the South Side.A 47-year-old man was in the 5600 block of South Shields Avenue about 1:40 a.m. when two men approached him and asked if he wanted to sell his snowblower, Fox Chicago reports. He said no, and the men reportedly shot him in the thigh before taking his snowblower and cash.More...




Source: Man Shot, Robbed Of Snowblower Following Chicago Blizzard

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A couple of weeks ago, I told you the story of Pastor Marrion P'Udongo, the "Oskar Schindler of Congo" who's now in dire need of a kidney transplant. I explained how during the war, the pastor had risked his life to shelter scores of his neighbors who were being persecuted and killed. And how in the years that followed, he'd used his pay as a fixer and interpreter for journalists to nurture and minister to orphans and child soldiers, and to the multitudes forced into squalid camps that sprang up along the valleys of northeastern Congo. Pastor Marrion's work transcended any religious order. He was a hero in a country short on heroes, and now he needed our help.I appealed to your better angels, and many of you responded. In the days after the story ran, the Pastor Marrion Fund raised over $11,000. Prayers and good wishes poured in from all over the world. One person said she was planning to bike from London to Paris to raise money. Another even volunteered his own kidney, if needed. The pastor was completely overwhelmed by the response. From a hospital room in Kampala, Uganda, where he was receiving dialysis and recovering from an infection, he said, "God has brought these people to save me. I never knew I had so many friends."More...




Source: For Congo's Hero Pastor, the Clock is Ticking Down

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Given that some economists still debate the root causes of the Great Depression, little wonder that a multitude of competing stories still vies for affirmation as explanation for the financial crisis of 2008. Recrimination sometimes seems like the real American pastime, and the near-slide into the financial abyss presents a teeming buffet of potential culprits.Depending upon your ideological predisposition, the crisis owes to the greedy bankers who turned home loans into casino chips, or to the federal regulators who abdicated authority, allowing Wall Street to turn itself into a gambling parlor. It was homeowners who treated their mortgages like winning lottery tickets, cashing in through repeated rounds of refinancing. It was politicians who championed expanded home ownership with reckless tax incentives and mandates forcing banks to lend even to borrowers with sketchy credit. It was the Federal Reserve which kept interest rates too low for too long.More...




Source: Bad News: New Book Probes Role of Press in Financial Crisis

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I dig wings as much as the next person, but I'm not the kind of guy that plans a dinner around a plate of butter-and-hot-sauce-bathed, deep-fried chicken parts. Or at least I didn't think I was until I visited the The Good Fork in Red Hook, Brooklyn back in March 2006, just a few weeks after this mom-and-pop restaurant opened. I had finished the now famous Korean-style Steak and Eggs (you'll find this recipe, which we ran in our September 2007 issue, here) but couldn't stop thinking about my appetizer: Asian-style chicken wings. These plump wings were perfect--crispy skin, juicy meat, and bathed in just the right amount of fiery sriracha and sambal oelek sauce. They were nothing like the scrawny, over-cooked, over-buttery specimens I ate growing up.More...




Source: The Best Hot Wings Recipe for Super Bowl Sunday

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For a growing crop of teen and college philanthropists, typical young adult behavior takes a different twist.Harvard sophomore Julie Zauzmer celebrated her 20th birthday by working the overnight shift at a homeless shelter, Boston.com reports.More...




Source: Young Volunteers Are New Generation Of Savvy Entrepreneurs

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Are you wondering, "what time does the Superbowl start?"It's a common search query, as is "what time is the super bowl 2011," "superbowl time" and "superbowl kickoff time 2011," according to Google Trends the evening before the Super Bowl.More...

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