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Pornography:

• Yahoo's search for profit leads to pornography | Yahoo Inc., struggling for profit amid a shaky dot-com marketplace, has become the first top-tier Internet company to embrace the porn industry, opening an online store stocked with thousands of hard-core DVDs and video tapes. (Los Angeles Times)
• Christians clear prostitutes' cards from phone boxes | Theologian Mark Greene has begun a one-man crusade to rid the nation's phone boxes of what he calls "pornography in a public space." Now the Evangelical Alliance is backing him and calling for others to do the same (The Independent, London)
• Also: 'Adopt' a phone box to fight tart cards | Westminster council today appealed for residents to "adopt a phone box" and band together to tear down explicit prostitute cards. (The Daily Mail, London)

The Bible:

• Flora Biblia | Why is growing a garden of plants of the Bible such a difficult task? Bible translators were no botanists. Now, modern botanists debate what some of the plants really are. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Also: Mislabeled in translation | Did Eve really offer Adam an apricot? A list of what modern botanists think some of the plants mentioned in the Bible really are. (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Where is it written? Right here | The Bible in English, two writers maintain, shaped the language, politics and culture of Britain and America. (The New York Times Book Review)
• Holy Shtick | A search for the historical Bible yields little; but the making of the King James Version is one of the greatest stories ever told. (New York)

Popular culture:

• Victorian Premier exorcises film ban | Victoria government says decision not to screen The Exorcist was inconsistent, inappropriate (The Australian)
• 'Jesus' and poor advertisement | During miniseries about Christ, ads for a razor for "revealing the Goddess in you" and abortion rights (Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI)
• 'Mister Rogers' Ends Production, but Mr. Rogers Keeps Busy (The New York Times)
• Actor's religious experience overcomes negative image | '80s movie icon and recovering alcoholic Judge Reinhold tells church that fame and fortune couldn't fill a godless life (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
• Amy Grant's 'Lead' No. 1? You're joking | Putting singer's '88 effort on top weakens list's authority (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• Believers may find 'new' look surprising | BBC documentary on Jesus will air in U.S. on Easter Sunday on Discovery Channel (The Orlando Sentinel)
• Also: Jesus: The Complete Story (The Discovery Channel)

Other articles of interest:

• Croatian newspaper says 100,000 in Zagreb are possessed by the devil | Vecernji, which usually concentrates on politics, says the Catholic Church is desperately looking for exorcists. (Ananova)
• U.S. warns of rollover risk in vans | NHTSA slaps consumer advisory warning on vehicle popular among churches (Associated Press)
• Religious relic still stirs passion | Science debunks Shroud of Turin legend; believers are unimpressed (Arizona Daily Star)

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