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• Good heavens! Cabby stuck with 666 | For taxi driver Michael Byrne, San Francisco's mean streets have turned a lot meaner since he was cursed with a medallion number he insists has brought him nothing but bad luck. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Taxicab No. 666 may be cursed, but so it will stay | San Francisco's Taxicab Commission voted to keep the Dark Lord's favorite number — 666 — affixed to an allegedly cursed cab (The New York Times)
  
  

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• Chips: high tech aids or tracking tools? | Some Christian critics see implants as the fulfillment of a biblical prophecy that describes an age of evil in which humans are forced to take the "Mark of the Beast" on their bodies, to buy or sell anything (Associated Press)
  
  
• Corrections: That porn priest story | The article repeatedly "referred incorrectly" (The New York Times)
  
  
• Giving evil the eye | Juries don't always know heinous crimes when they see them, but this might help (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Seven deadly sins | How to commit them (without, you know, doing anything wrong) (The Washington Post)
  
  
• The business of religion | It used to be that companies were in the business of selling products and churches were in the business of promoting faith. Today the line between religion and the marketplace is blurring (Voice of America)
  
  
• Praying against Zion | The National Council of Churches is concerned someone out there loves Israel. (Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMag.com)
  
  
• Patriarch consecrates bells for Harvard | Patriarch Alexy II on Tuesday consecrated 18 newly cast brass bells destined for Harvard University in a trade that will see the originals returned to Russia nearly 80 years after they were saved from Josef Stalin's religious purges (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Moscow's oldest monastery wins back bells from US (Reuters)
  
  
• Ave Maria not just for Catholics | The builders of Ave Maria, whose name is Latin for Hail Mary, have been struggling to get the message out that anyone can live here ever since Monaghan's headline-grabbing comments in 2005, when the site was still just a sod farm (Associated Press)
  
  
• Polish priest denies anti-Semite charges | A Polish Roman Catholic priest on Monday rejected accusations that he and the radio station he operates were anti-Semitic, while his church superiors voiced their support for the embattled clergyman (Associated Press)
  
  

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