Researcher Pulls His Name From Paper on Prayer and Fertility
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A prominent researcher at Columbia University has pulled his name from a controversial study of prayer's effect on fertility, the university says.
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A prominent Swiss-based Islamic scholar on Tuesday gave up plans to teach at a leading U.S. university after waiting in vain for a visa and accused the Bush administration of trying to silence him.
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One of the world's most-read weblogs, a "tumour diary" written by a BBC journalist stricken with brain cancer, has come to an end, after its author became too sick to continue with the journal.
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Sale of red roses and red gifts has been banned by Saudi Arabia's religious police in the run-up to Valentine's Day, reports a local newspaper
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Media & professional: Â· Zimbabwe leader stripped of honorary doctorateÂ· US universities poised to follow suit after pressure
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Keith Ellison, who will become the first Muslim member of Congress next month, has offended some conservatives with his plan to use the Quran during his ceremonial swearing-in. The decision by Ellison, D-Minn., to use the Muslim holy book for the ceremony instead of the Bible triggered an angry column by Dennis Prager on the Web site Townhall.com this week.
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The Malaysian government orders a Catholic newspaper to stop using the word Allah.
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A prominent Swiss-based Islamic scholar  on Tuesday gave up plans to teach at a leading U.S. university  after waiting in vain for a visa and accused the Bush  administration of trying to silence him.
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The Omaha Archdiocese has severed ties with a Jesuit university's family center after two researchers urged the church to allow unmarried couples to live together and have sex and children as long as they are engaged.
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A Muslim school is removing from textbooks passages which allegedly brand other faiths as "worthless".
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An article last week about Gustavo Arellano, the journalist who started the newspaper column âÂ¡Ask a Mexican!â that became a book of the same name, misstated the e-mail address for readers to write to him. It is themexican@askamexican.net.
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After days of rising protests from students and professors, Pope Benedict XVI has pulled out of a visit to La Sapienza University
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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Corrects first name of doctor in paragraph 5 to Robert, not Richard, as previously sent
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Administrators at Fort Mill High School decided to remove gay marriage, abortion and stem cell research from the agenda of a planned student debate out of concern that they might clash with a state law on sex education.
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A leading museum has cancelled a talk by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist from the United States who reportedly claimed that black people are less intelligent than whites, it said Thursday.
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In limbo since the State Department invoked an anti-terrorism law to keep him out of the country, Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan resigned his faculty appointment at the University of Notre Dame this week.