In a comfortable office, Bible placed firmly atop his lap, 89-year-old Harold Camping is waxing with utter certainty about the end of the world.
Harold Camping Says It’s the End of the World. He’s Said that Before
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A Brief History of Internet Spam
Spam hardly needs an introduction. Anyone with an e-mail account knows the acute frustration of being inundated with offers of pills from virtual pharmacists, financial propositions from Nigerian princes and pictures for fetish sites that really, really shouldn’t exist.
The New Trend of Used Clothes
Viki Stevenson stands behind the counter, passing fashion judgment. She’s wearing a gauzy black Viktor & Rolf blouse and skinny Diesel jeans as she sorts through a pile of clothes in the shop where she works in Brooklyn, N.Y
Opioids: New Studies on Chronic Pain Drug Prescriptions
Pain is one of the most common reasons that people end up in the doctor’s office.
After the Fall
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” — Jesus, according to Matthew’s Gospel Over a period of 14 years, Father John Hanlon of St. Mary’s in Plymouth, Massachusetts, would occasionally take boys under his charge to a nude beach
Gun-toting soccer mom, husband shot dead
Soccer mom Melanie Hain, who made national headlines last year by having a loaded, holstered handgun at her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer game, has been found shot dead in her home along with her husband, police said Thursday. Information from 911 calls shows that it took a SWAT team nearly an hour and a half to gain entry to the Lebanon, Pennsylvania, home Wednesday evening
Journalist jailed for criticizing Sri Lanka’s military
A Sri Lankan court sentenced a journalist Monday to serve 20 years in prison for articles that criticized the military, according to the Asian Human Rights Commission. “The AHRC is not surprised by this judgment because at the very inception of this case, the AHRC pointed out that this is purely a political case,” the commission said in a statement.