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POPSAmish Romance Novels Are A Hot New Genre
The explosion of Amish fiction has drawn mixed reactions within Amish communities. Emma Smoker, 39, who was selling homemade pies -- apple, blueberry and shoofly -- in front of Rachel's, said the books don't interest her. "I live the Amish life -- I don't need to read about it," said Mrs. Smoker, who is the sister of store owner Rachel Esh. From what her friends tell her, she added, the books "aren't quite true to life." While there are no religious strictures against contemporary novels, the church has traditionally viewed fiction as distracting and deceitful, says Donald Kraybill, a senior fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, a religious studies center at Elizabethtown College. Some Amish have nevertheless become avid fans. An Amish woman in Lancaster told Ms. Lewis that "all the women in our church district are reading your books under the covers, literally," Ms. Lewis said. Ms. Brunstetter, who lives in Tacoma, Wash., said several Amish families
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POPSFormer Rep. William "Dollar Bill" "Cold Cash" Jefferson (D-LA) Is 11x Guilty The verdict comes four years after the Aug. 3, 2005 raids of Jefferson’s homes in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., in which the FBI found $90,000 in cash hidden in the freezer of his D.C. home, money the government said Jefferson was going to deliver as a bribe to Atiku Abubakar, then vice president of Nigeria, to gain his help with a telecommunications deal in Nigeria being pursued by Lori Mody, a Northern Virginia businesswoman. The money was the lion’s share of $100,000 in FBI cash that the congressman was videotaped receiving packed in a briefcase days earlier in a suburban Virginia parking lot from Mody, who, beginning in March of 2005, had become a cooperating witness for the FBI, secretly taping her conversations with Jefferson. The jury did not find him guilty on the Foreign Corruptions Practices Act, which was the count linked to the money in the freezer.
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POPSTerrorism, schmerorrism. The REAL threats to your life “Microbial Agents” (read bugs like flu and pneumonia) will send 75,000 of us to meet the Reaper this year... the next greatest danger is “Toxic Agents” – asbestos in our ceiling, lead in our pipes, the stuff we spray on our lawns or pour down our clogged drains. Annual body count from these handy consumer products is around 55,000. After that, the most dangerous person in our lives is the one behind the wheel. About 42,000 of us will cash our chips in our rides this year. More than half will do so because we didn’t wear a seat belt... Over 16,000 Americans will be murdered this year, most often by a relative or friend... After that, it’s an overdose on “non-steroidal anti-inflammatories”, acetaminophen or aspirin. About 7,600 hundred a year...
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POPSCell Phone Loans I heard this on NPR news this morning. I wanted to clip it but I can't clip while I'm driving in my van.
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POPSQuit Drugs, Get an iPod THis is kind of stupid. I understand the point of it, but to give them an iPod but not pay fro the medicines is just not right. And most will get only vouchers for a free parking space, that is not going to help them kick the habit of drugs. The people need long hours in detox and counseling not a parking space or a free meal!
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