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			<title><![CDATA[ Episcopalians Reject Gay Candidates ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 -- The story from the Grace Cathedral on Saturday was not so much about what happened but what didn't happen. Episcopalians in San Francisco did not elect an openly gay candidate as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, thereby preventing a schism within the 75... ]]></description>
			<author>John Pomfret</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Financial Model Fit for Islam ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The business class had just finished its evening prayer break, and everyone's shoes were back on. ]]></description>
			<author>Michelle Boorstein</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Latino Catholics Increasingly Drawn To Pentecostalism ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES -- When Fabiola Briones entered a Pentecostal church for the first time, she was in crisis, recently divorced and bitter from abuse she suffered as a child. A Mexican-American Catholic, she had never seen anyone fall to the ground while praising God or speak in tongues, which is common... ]]></description>
			<author>Sonya Geis</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Plans to End Cacophony Of Cairo's Call to Prayer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CAIRO, April 30 -- Sitting on the bluff at the Giza pyramids in late afternoon, as the sky turns pink behind the great pharaonic tombs, you can hear the 5 o'clock call to prayer rise from mosques in the Nile River valley below until the air becomes filled with a drone of proclaimed faith.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114514288" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114514288" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>Daniel Williams</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The Sky's the Limit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A crunch on open space in many cities has developers courting churches with multimillion-dollar offers to buy their property and sometimes even the air above their heads. ]]></description>
			<author>Kevin Eckstrom</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Inquiry Backs Complaint Against Priest ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A Jesuit priest who was a popular teacher for 14 years at Georgetown Preparatory School inappropriately touched a student at the prestigious Jesuit-run boys' school in North Bethesda, an investigation by Jesuit authorities found. ]]></description>
			<author>Michelle Boorstein</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Reuters Business Summary ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:42:11 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Honda Q4 net jumps on one-off gains TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. on Wednesday posted a 133 percent jump in fourth-quarter net profit, helped by a softer yen, brisk overseas sales and accounting one-offs, but projected weaker-than-expected earnings for this year. January-March net profit at... ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Reuters Politics Summary ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:36:12 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Bush picks Fox's Snow as press secretary WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has picked Fox News Radio host Tony Snow as his new White House press secretary and is expected to announce the choice as early as Wednesday, a Republican official said on Tuesday night. Snow will replace Scott McClellan,...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114516059" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114516059" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>Reuters</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sri Lanka launches new strikes on Tiger territory ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:38:49 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military launched new strikes on Tamil Tiger areas in the island's northeast on Wednesday, a day after a deadly suicide bomb attack blamed on rebels shattered a fragile ceasefire. ]]></description>
			<author>Peter Apps</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Empty chair and slurs mar Mexico election debate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:29:42 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential candidates tore into each other on Tuesday in a televised debate with some tough rhetoric also aimed at an empty chair set aside for a leftist front runner who refused to take part. ]]></description>
			<author>Kieran Murray</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Sri Lankan Commander Wounded in Deadly Blast ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 26 -- A suicide bomber dressed to appear pregnant blew herself up in front of a car carrying the commanding general of Sri Lanka's army Tuesday, killing eight people and badly wounding the officer. Twenty-six other people were injured in the attack inside the military's... ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Zarqawi Taunts U.S. in Video ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, showed his face in a video for the first time yesterday, accusing President Bush of lying to Americans about U.S. military victories in Iraq and vowing to destroy efforts to form a new government there.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114528700" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114528700" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>Karen DeYoung</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:11:08 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Under election-year pressure to reduce surging gasoline prices, President Bush on Tuesday halted filling of the nation's emergency oil reserve, urged the waiver of clean air rules to ease local gas shortages and called for the repeal of $2 billion in tax breaks for profit-heavy oil... ]]></description>
			<author>NEDRA PICKLER</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Port Workers to Undergo Background Checks ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:09:44 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Seaport workers will undergo background checks for links to terrorism and to ensure they are legal U.S. residents, the Bush administration said Tuesday. ]]></description>
			<author>LARA JAKES JORDAN</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jury Convicts Calif. Man in Terrorism Case ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:22:08 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a 23-year-old man of supporting terrorists by attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan three years ago. ]]></description>
			<author>DON THOMPSON</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iran Threatens to Hide Nuclear Program ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:30:41 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran ratcheted up its defiance ahead of a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment, threatening Tuesday to hide its program if the West takes "harsh measures" and to transfer nuclear technology to chaos-ridden Sudan.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114529766" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114529766" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>ALI AKBAR DAREINI</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Lockheed profit rises, but stock falls from high ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:12:05 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp. <LMT.N>, the No. 1 U.S. defense contractor, said on Tuesday that quarterly profit rose a greater-than-expected 60 percent on higher sales of information technology services and a one-time gain from selling stock in a satellite operator. ]]></description>
			<author>Bill Rigby</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Advocates Try to Boost Immigrant Turnout ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:06:28 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- "Today we march! Tomorrow we vote!" It's been a popular slogan at recent immigration rights rallies, and now organizers are trying to make it reality. Advocates nationwide are aiming to boost low voter turnout among foreign-born citizens and to file naturalization papers for the millions... ]]></description>
			<author>ERIN TEXEIRA</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Succession Unclear After Grand Rebbe's Death ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK, April 25 -- A Hasidic king was buried Monday night, even as two of his sons fought in secular and religious courts to claim his throne. ]]></description>
			<author>Michael Powell</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ukrainians Mark 20th Chernobyl Anniversary ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:56:14 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian mourners carried single red carnations and flickering candles during a solemn ceremony early Wednesday to remember the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, an event that continues to scar this ex-Soviet republic 20 years later.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114531087" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114531087" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>ANNA MELNICHUK</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hamas Says Banks Afraid of Transfers ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:47:25 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Banks fearful of U.S. retribution are preventing millions of dollars in foreign aid from reaching the Palestinians, the Palestinian finance minister acknowledged Tuesday. ]]></description>
			<author>MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Justices Weigh Abuse in Woman's Defense ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:27:08 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Keshia Dixon claimed her abusive boyfriend woke her up three years ago with a gun to her head, a punch in the face and a demand that she break the law and buy him more weapons. ]]></description>
			<author>GINA HOLLAND</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Dow Closes Down 53, Nasdaq Ends Down 3 ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:06:34 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- Interest rate worries sent share prices lower Tuesday on Wall Street after strong consumer confidence and home sales data signaled that the economy is holding up better than expected and suggested that the Federal Reserve has room for more rate increases. ]]></description>
			<author>EILEEN ALT POWELL</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Stocks fall on rate fear; banks, oil sector hit ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:31:34 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday, buffeted by fears of rising interest rates, a sell-off in the energy sector, including Exxon Mobil Corp. <XOM.N>, and a drop in the shares of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. <CAT.N>.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114533220" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114533220" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>Ellis Mnyandu</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ UN puts sanctions on 4 Sudanese for Darfur war ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:29:32 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions on Tuesday on four Sudanese accused of abuses in the Darfur conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives and uprooted at least 2 million people. ]]></description>
			<author>Evelyn Leopold</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Coroner: Priest's Letter Opener Fit Wound ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:22:35 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TOLEDO, Ohio -- A letter opener found in a priest's room was a "perfect fit" when inserted into a jaw wound suffered by a nun slain in 1980, an assistant coroner testified Tuesday at the priest's murder trial. ]]></description>
			<author>JOHN SEEWER</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Canada, US closer to lumber deal, says source ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:59:26 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ OTTAWA (Reuters) - Talks between the United States and Canada on ending a protracted dispute over softwood lumber are "picking up speed" and a deal could be reached soon, a well-placed Ottawa source told Reuters on Tuesday. ]]></description>
			<author>David Ljunggren</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Hector Barreto Resigns As SBA Chief ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:07:45 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Small Business Administration chief Hector Barreto resigned Tuesday after a tenure marked by criticism of the agency's response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the Gulf Coast hurricanes.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114534191" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114534191" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>FRANK BASS</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tesco Annual Profit Rises 17 Percent ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:22:49 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LONDON -- Tesco PLC, Britain's largest supermarket chain, reported a 17 percent rise in full-year profit Tuesday and announced plans to raise up to 5 billion pounds ($8.9 billion) from the reorganization of its property portfolio over the next five years. ]]></description>
			<author>JANE WARDELL</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ EU Approves E.On $36B Bid for Endesa ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:22:20 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union's head office on Tuesday approved German energy company E.On AG's 29.1 billion euros ($36 billion) bid to buy Spanish power company Endesa SA. ]]></description>
			<author>RAF CASERT</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ France calls on Washington to cut farm subsidies ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:21:38 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PARIS (Reuters) - The United States must limit its subsidies on farm products, French Trade Minister Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday, after it became clear world trading partners would miss an end-April deadline for a key deal. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bush Seeks More Alternative-Fuel Credits ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:20:32 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday that Congress should make all hybrid and clean diesel vehicles eligible for tax credits, as automakers and the ethanol industry touted the benefits of alternative fuels in the face of rising gasoline prices.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114534783" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114534783" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>KEN THOMAS</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ FCC chairman says indecency standard clear ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:14:17 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission told television broadcasters on Tuesday they should know what is indecent because the law has not changed in more than 25 years. ]]></description>
			<author>Jeremy Pelofsky</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Worker Recalls the Chernobyl Disaster ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:13:11 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ KIEV, Ukraine -- As the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster approached, Yuri Andreyev remembered his exams for a job at the nuclear power plant. Asked to propose a scenario of a reactor explosion, he says he offered three _ and was rebuked. "Keep it in your mind, man _ Soviet reactors cannot... ]]></description>
			<author>ANNA MELNICHUK</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ L'Oreal Gets New French CEO ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:10:14 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PARIS -- L'Oreal SA, the world's largest beauty products company, has a Frenchman at its helm for the first time in almost two decades after shareholders on Tuesday approved the appointment of Jean-Paul Agon to succeed departing British CEO Lindsay Owen-Jones. ]]></description>
			<author>LAURENCE FROST</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Face-Transplant Patient Healing, Docs Say ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:08:23 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BEIJING -- A Chinese man who was attacked by a bear and had a partial face transplant is healing well, but his body could still reject tissue from a brain-dead patient used to give him a new nose, lip and cheek, state media reported Tuesday.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114535390" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114535390" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>ALEXA OLESEN</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rice pledges US help to Turkey against Kurd rebels ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:07:45 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ANKARA (Reuters) - The United States tried on Tuesday to ease Turkey's concerns instability in Iraq was threatening its security, pledging continued support for Ankara's fight against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ China Gives BlackBerry Maker a Raspberry ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:07:38 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK -- The BlackBerry e-mail device is coming to China in the next few months. By then, thousands of Chinese may already be checking their e-mail on the new "Redberry." ]]></description>
			<author>BRUCE MEYERSON</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Millipore to buy Serologicals for $1.4 billion ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:58:20 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millipore Corp. <MIL.N> said on Tuesday it agreed to buy Serologicals Corp. <SERO.O> for $1.4 billion in cash to boost its role as a provider of chemicals used in drug research, sending shares of both companies higher. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ MTV 'Popetown' Ad Draws Complaint ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:28:58 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BERLIN -- A German conservative leader said Tuesday he has filed a complaint with prosecutors accusing music channel MTV of disparaging Christianity in an ad for its Vatican parody cartoon "Popetown," which depicts the pope as a pogo-stick riding brat.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114535996" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114535996" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>DAVID RISING</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Streisand Strikes Back at Biographer ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:22:55 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES -- Here's one sure way to incite Barbra Streisand's wrath: Write a book about her. ]]></description>
			<author>BOB THOMAS</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Opinion Focus ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Washington Post opinion columnist Eugene Robinson discuss his recent columns and anything else that's on your mind. ]]></description>
			<author>Eugene Robinson</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ S.C. Priest Pleads Guilty in Abuse Case ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:38:52 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A Roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty to three counts of assault and battery, avoiding a trial that was about to start on charges alleging he sexually abused two boys more than 25 years ago. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Witness Details Finding Body of Ohio Nun ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:32:59 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TOLEDO, Ohio -- The body of a nun found strangled and stabbed to death in a hospital chapel appeared to have been displayed in a ritualistic fashion, her arms and legs straight and no sign of blood, two fellow nuns testified Monday at the murder trial of a priest accused of the 1980 killing.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114537065" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114537065" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>JOHN SEEWER</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ohio Churches' Political Activities Challenged ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In a challenge to the ethics of conservative Ohio religious leaders and the fairness of the Internal Revenue Service, a group of 56 clergy members contends that two churches have gone too far in supporting a Republican candidate for governor. ]]></description>
			<author>Peter Slevin</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Herndon Church Adds Mass In Spanish ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the year and a half since moving from El Salvador to Herndon, Salvador Bonilla has gone to church only when friends could give him a lift to a Catholic parish four miles away in Sterling, the closest place offering Mass in Spanish. Yesterday afternoon, he stood outside St. Joseph Catholic Church... ]]></description>
			<author>Karin Brulliard</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Da Vinci' Author Lets Others Fight It Out ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:56:47 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- Though he's been hit with lawsuits and rebuffed by the Vatican, author Dan Brown said Sunday it's not his responsibility to address controversies stirred up by his book, "The Da Vinci Code." ]]></description>
			<author>BEVERLEY WANG</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ World's youngest political prisoner turns 17 ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ BEIJING (Reuters) - A Tibetan youth considered by rights groups to be the world's youngest political prisoner turns 17 on Tuesday, 11 years after disappearing from public view when he was named the Himalayan region's second-ranking religious figure.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114537810" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114537810" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<author>Benjamin Kang Lim</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Orthodox Christians Celebrate Easter ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday, worshipping at candlelit services from Russia to Ethiopia before gathering families for outdoor feasts. ]]></description>
			<author>BENJAMIN HARVEY</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ On Tape, Bin Laden Warns of Long War ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BERLIN, April 23 -- Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged his followers to prepare for a drawn-out conflict with the Western world in a new audiotape broadcast Sunday, blaming what he called "a Crusader-Zionist war" for a long list of attacks on Islam in places from Darfur to Denmark. ]]></description>
			<author>Craig Whitlock</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Mayor Postpones Church Parking Crackdown ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) has backed off a planned crackdown on double-parking around city churches, instead imposing a moratorium on enforcement until a task force recommends ways to end squabbles between churches and their neighbors, the mayor's office confirmed yesterday. ]]></description>
			<author>Eric M. Weiss</author>
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			<title><![CDATA[ China, Vatican Edge Toward Accord ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ HONG KONG, April 22 -- After more than half a century of hostility, China and the Roman Catholic Church have inched within reach of normal relations, a historic shift aimed at improving the lives of 10 million Chinese who regularly practice the faith, according to leaders and analysts on both sides...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114538655" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/religion;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=198114538655" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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