Archive for March, 2008

Without Walls International Church Tampa building for sale

Without Walls International Church, founded by Randy and Paula White, facility up for sale in Tampa, asking price is $30 million. The sanctuary seats 4,500 with additional 94,000 square foot office building and television studio.… Keep reading

Russian doomsday cult says world ends in April

By Chris Baldwin

NIKOLSKOE, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian doomsday cult sheltering in a bunker say credit cards and food packaging bar codes are satanic, the official negotiating the release of children from the group said on Monday.

Around 30 followers, including four children, from across Russia and neighboring Belarus met last October and… Keep reading

Shariah Comes to Harvard

by Mark Pratt, Associated Press Writer, March 4, 2008

In a test of Harvard’s famed open-mindedness, the university has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week to accommodate Muslim women who say it offends their sense of modesty to exercise in front of the opposite sex.

The policy is already unpopular with many on campus, including some women who consider it sexist.

“I think that it’s incorrect… Keep reading

Childhood Vaccines Linked to Autism

ALISON YOUNG, ” Ga. girl helps link autism to childhood vaccines”, Atlanta Journal - Constitution, March 6, 2008,
Link: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/health/stories/2008/03/06/autism_0306.html

In a move autism family advocates call unprecedented, federal health officials have concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of the disorder in a 9-year-old Georgia girl.

While government officials continue to maintain that vaccines don’t cause autism, advocates say the recent settlement of the girl’s injury case in a secretive… Keep reading