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...Enter rentapriest.com, started back in 1992 (and moved online a few years later) by Louise Haggett, a marketing specialist and practicing Catholic who encountered a very personal need for more priests - and decided to address that shortage with a very unorthodox response...
...American Civil Liberties Union got the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to repay $7,000 it had seized from a black businessman in the Omaha, Neb., airport on the (quite false) theory that it was drug money. The A.C.L.U. called it "flying while black." Dr. Lauren Shaiova, a pain specialist who treats sickle-cell-disease patients at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center, says doctors have long allowed African-American sickle-cell sufferers to agonize because they assume blacks will become addicted to pain medication. Call it "ailing while black...
...thighs, as about 10 children and four adults watched from outside the cage. Stone used Bronstein's sock as a tourniquet and tried to call for help. She called her sister, a former nurse, who told Stone to get to a hospital and to see an infectious-disease specialist...
...final day as a player, at Wimbledon in 1999, stands like a doorway between his glorious past and his soiled present. Becker, who'd made his name serving and volleying, lost in straight sets in the fourth round to serve-and-volley specialist Pat Rafter. Becker knew he was done. He had liked sitting in the locker room during the rain delays that day, talking to older players back for seniors matches, but he felt removed from the whole scene, as if watching someone else complete his career. After losing he met with the press and began drinking. Barbara...
...Germany's high-tech industry has made much of the fact that for every visa issued to a foreign computer specialist, at least two jobs are created for German workers in support positions such as customer service. And over the past year, opposition to the green card scheme seems to have become muted, with Angela Merkel, the CDU leader, announcing a nuanced change to her party's outright opposition to immigration to allow a small number of temporary visas to help industry fill its job vacancies. But this is indeed a minor shift: when the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schr...