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• Deadline for claims against diocese is set | Federal bankruptcy Judge James Marlar gave victims of sexual abuse until April 15, 2005, to come forward with claims against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson. (Los Angeles Times)

More articles of interest:

• City folks in Amish country | With its gentle rolling hills, one-room schoolhouses and covered bridges, Lancaster County looks like an ever-changing picture postcard of rural America. Five million tourists pass through each year; most know the region as Pennsylvania Dutch Country, home of the Amish, or Plain People, who shun electricity and clip-clop in horse-drawn buggies along the winding country roads. (The New York Times)
• Speed dating helps thin the herd | Twelve women and 12 men each pay $34 for the privilege of going on six-minute dates with each other across a table at the restaurant. There is speed dating for athletic-minded people, Christians, Jews, Latins, tall people, African-Americans and single parents. (Palm Beach Post, Fla.)
• Store's decision to ban Salvation Army misses the target | Call it a safe bet -- maybe even a bright-red, bull's-eye, fashionable, smartly priced bet -- that American life has become too corporate or complex when Target banishes the Salvation Army's bell ringers. (Ruth Holladay, Indianapolis Star)
• Evangelicals are strict, not stupid | The impression is often given that evangelical Christians are de facto bigoted, ignorant and, not to put too fine a point on it, downright stupid. Their protests against what they regard as unorthodox developments in the church are seen as boorish and, sometimes, fuelled by hate rather than love. (Colin Sedgwick, The Guardian, UK)
• When it comes to consumer boycotts, companies will even listen—sometimes | Don't buy Crest. Don't buy Tide. That is the message of Focus on the Family and the American Family Association, which are calling for a boycott of those Proctor & Gamble products. That company contributed $10,000 to overturn a Cincinnati ordinance approved by voters that prevents homosexuals from receiving preferential treatment. The boycott is intended to pressure P&G and other American corporations to stop supporting the homosexual cause. (World)
• The crusade against evolution | In the beginning there was Darwin. And then there was intelligent design. How the next generation of "creation science" is invading America's classrooms. (Wired)

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