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Picture yourself in a restaurant. At some point during the meal service a waiter or waitress sets on the table a small card containing a brief Psalm excerpt. How do you react? Look what happened over on DU....... mondo joe (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-18-05 11:26 AM Original message Alaska Airlines now giving out prayers with dinner My partner flew to and from Chicago yesterday. With his dinner he received a little card with the Alaska Airline logo, a landscape and the following: Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever. Psalm 107:1 I'm so disgusted...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago -- perhaps close to the dawn of the species. Researchers determined that the specimens are around 195,000 years old. Previously, the oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens were Ethiopian skulls dated to about 160,000 years ago. Genetic studies estimate that Homo sapiens arose about 200,000 years ago, so the new research brings the fossil record more in line with that, said John Fleagle of Stony Brook University in New York,...

Illinois churches are protesting a new state law that bars them from "discriminating" against homosexuals, contending it robs Christians of their First Amendment freedoms. Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed the bill into law yesterday amid a demonstration led by the Illinois Family Institute, or IFI, a non-profit group affiliated with Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and Alliance Defense Fund. The measure adds "sexual orientation" to the state law that bars discrimination based on race, religion and similar traits in areas such as jobs and housing. The bill was signed to loud cheers and a standing ovation from about 150...