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Norris Chumley calls 11-year-old Nadia Bloom’s rescue a miracle—but was it?

At the Huffington Post today, Norris Chumley says this of the Florida rescue of 11-year-old Nadia Bloom: If a miracle, by definition, is something of wonder that cannot be explained (as in the Old French and Latin miraculum or “object of … Continue reading

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Sherry Marquez Bait: a Man from Catholic Brazil Decapitates His Mother

This today from a Latin American news service: Police in the northeastern state of Bahia are looking for a 22-year-old man accused of decapitating his mother and fleeing with her head, the news Web site G1 said Tuesday. I await … Continue reading

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