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(CBS 11 News)
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A Euless man is suing the city because, he says, they’re trying to restrict his religious freedom.
Jose Merced is an oba, a priest of the Santeria Temple.
According
to an affidavit, Santeria is an Afro-Caribbean religion that considers
animal sacrifice “essential” because, they believe, “spiritual forces
manifest themselves in the world via the energy in blood.”
Merced practices […]

ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 29 (UPI) –
A new antibiotic from the Atun tree in the Pacific islands was recently
discovered by Mayo Clinic scientists after reading old texts.
The team, led by Brent Bauer, director of the Mayo Clinic
Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program, consulted a Dutch book
written by Georg Eberhard Rumpf in 1650 on native herbal medicines.
Rumpf […]

Yep, these are my own predictions for 2007. I prefer to keep readings on a personal level, but I thought I jump on the bandwagon just for fun. I have very few details - mostly its just impressions of currents and trends that I got from the cards, runes, and also from a few fleeting […]

ENGLEWOOD — When Otto Csanki was 14, a horse kicked him in the stomach. He wasn’t expected to live.

“I trained horses for dressage, for circuses,” Csanki, 50, said. “An
Arabian stallion accidentally kicked me. I was in the hospital for 18
months. The doctors gave me little or no chance to live.”

It was then the Hungarian learned […]

Scientists have discovered that an enormous ice shelf
broke off an island in the Canadian Arctic last year, in what could be
sign of global warming.

It is said to be the largest break in 25 years, casting an ice floe with an area of 66 sq km (25 square miles).

It occurred in August 2005 but was only […]

Until a generation ago, the two principal tribes in
these islands had a wholly divergent approach to the year’s final week.
The English celebrated Christmas, a jollity that they had spent
centuries in embellishing. But there was no public holiday on New
Year’s Day.
In Scotland, that was the most sacred
holiday of them all, while Christmas was a normal working […]

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A 21-year-old German tourist who
wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney
landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after
mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.
Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.
Instead of arriving […]

A UK hacker who broke into dozens of US
military computers to find secret evidence of alien life and technology faces
up to 70 years in a US prison.

The 40-year-old unemployed systems
administrator faces charges of attacking 97 US military and NASA computers between
2001 and 2002. If found guilty, he could face up to 70 years in […]

A heartland couple denies the animal cruelty charges filed against them. John Rosen and Holly Perrigo were in court on Wednesday and we spoke with Perrigo afterwards.
Rosen and Perrigo were arrested for allegedly torturing a pet kitten and then dissecting the animal.
Perrigo says, “John and my dad told me to keep my mouth shut and […]

IT IS a mystery older than Methuselah: why are we born to die after our allotted three-score years and ten?
Now scientists have discovered how genetic damage to cells and our
ability to carry out repairs are the major factors in determining how
long we will live.

The research could lead to new treatments for horrific diseases
which […]