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In her new Diary, Anne Strieber writes: “This is the second time I’ve posted a Diary entry about a movie. As of this writing, I have not yet seen The DaVinci Code film, although I plan to. I also must be one of the only people in the US who has never read The DaVinci Code?I relate [the story of Mary Magdalene to the modern world] this way: When religions push out women, their dogmas become hard and dry and they start being able to justify doing things like waging war and murdering and torturing people in the name of some testosterone-soaked male God.” Don?t miss this one!

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The Aftenposten newspaper in Norway reports that earlyWednesday morning, the country was struck by a meteor thathad theexplosive force of the atomic bomb that was dropped onHiroshima in 1945.The meteor hit the side of a mountain. There are no reportsof damage or casualties, but if the impact was as great asit appears, it is one of the most significant such events indecades.
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The first tropical depression of the 2006 hurricane seasonformed in the Caribbean in the same area that Katrina formedin 2005. The depression is poorly defined, with windsgusting to 35 miles an hour, but could become a named stormduring the coming week. If it moves northward into the Gulfof Mexico, it is likely to become a powerful storm, becausegulf water temperatures are at record highs due to globalwarming. At present, it appears that it will hug the Floridacoast and not develop beyond the level of a tropical storm.

The depression is located in the Caribbean Sea about 45miles west-southwest the western tip of Cuba. It is movingnorth-northwest into the Gulf of Mexico at about 12 milesper hour.

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This is the second time I have posted a Diary entry about a movie. As of this writing, I have not yet seen The DaVinci Code film, although I plan to, especially because the studio (Sony) is the same studio that is producing Whitley’s new movie The Grays. I might have hoped to have been invited to a screening, but since it opened at the Cannes Film Festival, I would have had to fly to France in order to see it before it opened in theaters here.
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