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Printer Friendly Format Nation Monks’ thriving coffee business helps attract young men to monastery By Sheila Archambault Posted: 11/16/2009 WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A small Carmelite monastery in Clark, Wyo., has seen its coffee sales take off in the last couple of years, and the growing awareness of its coffee business has brought an added benefit to the community -- more members. "In the past two years, the monks themselves have grown from six to 15 monks and all the new monks are under 25, some right out of high school," said Susie George, a neighbor of the monks who...

Fayetteville, NC, native, 1st Lt. Larry Pitts from Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, talks with a local vendor at the Fish Market in the Raabi neighborhood of Baghdad's Adhamiyah District. The paratroopers conduct a lot of patrols with the Iraqi Army and Police to show the local nationals they trust in the local security forces. Photo by Spc. Elvyn Nieves, 113th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment. BAGHDAD — Only seven months ago the Sugasimche (Fish Market) area in the Raabi neighborhood of the Adhamiyah district was filled with a violent, criminal element that struck fear into residents...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Customers in Germany and Britain lined up to buy the iPhone as it debuted there Friday, with Apple Inc. hoping to replicate the success that the combination cell phone, music player and Web browser has seen in the United States. Apple hopes to sell 10 million iPhones in 2008, helped by its launch in Asia next year. In Germany, the phone went on sale at more than 700 T-Mobile shops, including one in Cologne that opened just after midnight with some 350 customers already waiting outside...

Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up' By Fred Langan in Toronto and Tom Leonard Last Updated: 1:43am GMT 09/03/2007 Pictures of a polar bear floating precariously on a tiny iceberg have become the defining image of global warming but may be misleading, according to a new study. Polar bear experts said that numbers had increased due to the efforts of conservationists A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed that they are thriving, not declining, because of mankind's interference in the environment. In the Davis Strait area, a 140,000-square kilometre region, the polar bear...

Juan Williams: Most U.S. Blacks Thriving How cold has it been on Capitol Hill? Political journalist Juan Williams says it’s been so frigid that "the politicians are still walking around with their hands in their own pockets.” On a more serious note, Williams – senior correspondent for National Public Radio and a Fox News contributor – discussed the "rapid rate of change” in the U.S. in the past few years when he addressed the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in Florida. Williams cited the Clinton impeachment hearings, two controversial presidential elections, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Iraq...

Thriving women-only village is attacked by jealous locals By Mike Pflanz in Archer's Post (Filed: 16/07/2005) A group of Kenyan women who fled abusive husbands to set up their own women-only community are facing increasingly violent attacks by local men angry at their success. Turning traditional African patriarchy on its head, 15 women established Umoja village in 1990, as a refuge after their husbands' behaviour forced them to flee their homes. Mkamasiye Lebwaketa and Paulina Lekuriya wear the tribal bead necklaces their ‘women-only’ village sells Since then the village where women rule has expanded, its 48 members earning a living...

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Thriving city becomes the capital of chaos and misrule Harare's citizens at the mercy of food and fuel shortages and brutal police Andrew Meldrum in Harare Thursday May 8, 2003 The Guardian In Harare these days you never know where you are going to end up when you take a taxi. A dozen passengers crammed into a taxi van recently complained angrily among themselves about Zimbabwe's high inflation, critical fuel shortages and the police who shoved them when they were stopped at roadblocks. When one man tried to defend the police, a woman retorted: "The police are just Mugabe's dogs."...