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Anthropologists are studying twins to find out how muchgenes influence our belief in God. Because the families wegrow up in and the schools we attend (especially religiousschools) have a big influence on our future beliefs,identifying our “God Genes” is easier to do when we’reolder. Researcher Laura Koenig says, “Behavioral geneticistswant to find out what part of that difference is due togenes and what part is due to environmental effects.”
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Newswise – The Mayo Clinic reports that yogurt is surprisingly goodfor you. One 8-ounce cup of plain low-fat yogurt providesaround 400 mg of calcium, more than the 300 mg in an 8-ounceglass of milk. Yogurt also has as much potassium as a bananaand as much protein as an egg or ounce of meat. To makeyogurt, warm milk is fermented with two types ofbeneficialbacteria. Yogurt is also more digestible than milk forpeple who are lactose intolerant. And the The live bacteriain yogurt aid in digestion. But don’t rule out apples?eatingan apple a day can protect you from breast cancer!
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We wanted to have a sale, but instead of making individualdecisions about each of our many wonderful store items, wedecided to slash prices 10% across the board! This will makeroom on our shelves for the wonderful books and DVDs we’llfeature on future Dreamland and Mysterious Powers shows.Subscribers: Youcan take an EXTRA 10% off everything you buy, on top of thisreduction!

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Worldtribune.com reports that the U.S. Marine Corps hasstipulated that at least one Arabic speaker be included inevery unit in Iraq. There’s great concern in the militarythat relying on hand signals and a few spoken words of eachothers’ languages puts our soldiers in jeopardy, and there’sno guarantee that the Iraqi interpreters currently useddon’t have their own agendas, which could cause them tomisreport the words being said by each side. The demand forcourses in the Arabic language has soared at the Marinetraining base in Camp LeJeune, North Carolina.

So far, more than 260 Marines have enrolled in the 20-dayArabic language course given there. The course teachesMarines basic grammar, military vocabulary andconversational Arabic.
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