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Prof. Anders Henriksson wants you to know that college kids today aren't necessarily stupider or less informed than they were 30 years ago, and he offers as a Christmas stocking stuffer an improbable book full of proof. The volume is "Non Campus Mentis": non sequiturs, faux facts and boneheaded statements gleaned from three decades of student tests and papers at universities and colleges across North America. It has inched its way onto the New York Times miscellaneous bestseller list. And it certainly is miscellaneous. Henriksson insists he's not kidding. One student really did write that "the airplane was invented and ...

Nov. 14 — Eight Western aid workers are free and in Pakistan after being held captive in Afghanistan for three months by the Taliban for preaching Christianity. The detainees, including two Americans, were turned over to a non-governmental organization in Afghanistan and were picked up by U.S. military helicopters in a field near Ghazni, about 50 miles southwest of the capitol Kabul. OFFICIALS SAID the workers, who appeared to be in good physical condition, were to be taken to a Pakistani military base and then reunited with family in Islamabad. It was not entirely clear how the aid workers were ...

Most of you don't really know me, as I post little (but read a lot) here at Free Republic. Nevertheless, I would like to ask you for your prayers. I have a problem with an ovary, and there is reason to belive it is cancer. The good news, for which I'm very thankful, is that all testing so far shows no sign that it has spread. They'll be scheduling me for surgery soon, but I don't have a date yet. Your prayers would mean so much to me.