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Taylor U. crash mix-up:

1. 'Let's go home,' Whitney Cerak says | Cerak's family reported the news late Thursday, when they took over a blog that had been set up by the family of Laura VanRyn (The Indianapolis Star)
   
   
2. Survivor's ID was questioned weeks ago | Laura VanRyn's roommate alerted Taylor University officials about her concerns May 18; the school says it didn't tell others to protect families (The Indianapolis Star)
   
   
3. Stunned residents ask, 'How?' | Small town of student who died in wreck grapples with mix-up (The Indianapolis Star)
   
   
4. Gaylord: Welcome back, Whitney | People in this Northern Michigan town said there has been just one topic on everyone's lips for the past two days: how the popular young woman they thought they buried in Fairview Cemetery five weeks ago is actually recovering in a Grand Rapids hospital (The Grand Rapids Press)
   
   
5. Laura VanRyn's body to be exhumed | The Northwest Michigan Community Health Agency issued today a permit to disinter the body of Laura VanRyn, who is buried in a plot in Fairview Cemetery in Gaylord once believed to contain the remains of Whitney Cerak (The Indianapolis Star)
   
   
6. Coroner in mistaken ID case to step down | "I'm a career law enforcement officer," Ron Mowery said Thursday. "The decision to leave this position is something I decided before this tragedy, which has taken a huge toll on me." (Detroit Free Press)
   
   
7. Finding purpose in a life thought to be over | Everybody you meet in Gaylord seems to know Whitney, and the vast majority appear to believe her life has been preserved for some inscrutable but divine purpose (Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press)
   
   
8. From tragedy comes lesson in prayer, faith | This tale of mistaken identities is a mystery, a medical thriller, a family drama -- but, at the heart of it for the families of Whitney Cerak and Laura VanRyn, it's a spiritual story of communities reaching around the globe to support them (David Crumm, Detroit Free Press)
   
   

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Education:

1. Karns teacher on leave after alleged religious comment | Karns High School teacher and football coach John Fulkerson was placed on paid leave Friday after allegedly telling a student to "just read your Bible" (Knoxville News Sentinel, Tenn.)
   
   
2. Head of Biola University to retire in 2007 | Clyde Cook, who celebrated his 71st birthday Thursday, plans to retire next June, one year shy of the college's 100th anniversary, after 25 years at the school (Los Angeles Times)
   
   
3. Windsor Bible college closes | Declining enrollment and increasing costs have ended, at least temporarily, Covenant Bible College's operation in Windsor (Windsor Tribune, Co.)
   
   
4. Bible knowledge deemed important | College students need to be more familiar with the Bible, according to a report based on a survey of 39 English professors from different types of institutions across the country (The Chronicle of Higher Education, sub. req'd.)
   
   
5. Virginity pledgers often dishonest about past | Teenagers who take pledges to remain virgins until marriage are likely to deny having taken the pledge if they later become sexually active. Conversely, those who were sexual active before taking the pledge frequency deny their sexual history, according to new study findings (Reuters)
   
   

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