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In the small Gulf Coast city of Victoria, Texas, there are several churches, but just one synagogue, and one mosque — at least, until the mosque mysteriously burned down on Saturday, according to the New York Times. Now, in a sense, the synagogue has become a mosque: the Jews of Victoria handed the Muslims the key to the building, so they would a place to worship while rebuilding. “Everyone knows everybody, I know several members of the mosque, and we felt for them,” said Robert Loeb, the president of Bnai Israel, which affiliates with the Reconstructionist movement. On Sunday, the...

We’ve all had that co-worker at some point: superficially charming, supremely self-confident, but they’ll walk over anyone to get ahead and not feel a second’s remorse. Perhaps, after you were burned yet again, you half-joked that they must have a personality disorder. Today, experts believe it’s very possible that your colleague is a psychopath. Groundbreaking research presented at the Australian Psychology Society Congress in Melbourne this week reveals that one in five corporate workers may have the disorder — as many as in the prison population.

Oh my, what a tear jerker! FYI, this mom and son will be interviewed on Fox & Friends tomorrow morning. From the Grand Rapids Press, December 18: For years, Steve Flaig, a delivery truck driver at the Lowe's store on Plainfield Avenue, had searched for his birth mother. He found her working the cash register at the front of the store. For several months, he and Christine Tallady had known each other casually as co-workers. Last Friday they met for the first time as mother and son.... For Flaig, it was the reunion he had dreamed of for much of...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Dec. 12, 2006 -- Soldiers with the 277th Aviation Support Battalion will have a brighter Christmas, thanks to one soldier’s mother and the generosity of her co-workers. Nancy Ward (far right) poses with fellow Electronic Data Systems, Corp., employees in their Reston, Va., office. When Ward began gathering supplies to mail Christmas goodie bags to troops deployed with her son in Afghanistan, her co-workers jumped on board, donating gifts and money. Courtesy photo  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Nancy Ward, the mother of Sgt. 1st Class James Foley, recently organized a gift drive at...

I remember the days following all four fatal attempts to demoralize us as a nation and the many pictures of the victims appearing in the New York Times each day. There was much praise bestowed on so many folks; individuals would write eulogies that were printed and dedicated to a friend, family, or maybe even an acquaintance. I read those pages over and over and devoured every kind thought. I pondered in my mind whether or not any of the deceased ever heard these same praises in their lifetime. Did the husband have the same desire to bestow the...