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More rape, less deception

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Several weeks ago, there was a flurry of stories about someone in Israel convicted of “rape by deception.” Here is a typical lede for the story, this one from the BBC:


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Francis Collins's final friend

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Dr. Francis Collins finds himself in the middle of an ethics-, science-, politics-, money- and religion-filled debate instead of in the chemistry lab lately. Despite Christopher Hitchens’s recent shout-out, you have to wonder if the embryonic stem-cell research debate has left him fairly friendless.


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Covering the Quran burning

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I hadn’t really been following the news about the congregation in Florida that plans to burn a Quran. Gen. David Petraeus weighed in against the plan and it’s receiving a lot of coverage in countries with predominately Muslim populations. This picture is of a protest in Kabul. In fact, it’s downright surprising how much coverage this story has received considering that this is a tiny congregation. Of course, in the day and age of Westoboro-media-paloozas, I shouldn’t be surprised …


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'Mutant,' 'fake' Christianity on loose

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Every now and then, news coverage of a topic or an idea gets into the digital bloodstream and simply, as the popular saying puts it, “goes viral.” It really helps if the story is given a punch headline that causes lots of people to click “comment” or to post notes on Facebook. You know the game.


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How not to cover a protest

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Thousands of people demonstrated outside California’s state Capitol this past weekend. I assume — and, yes, I know how fraught with potential disaster that course of action can be — that The Associated Press didn’t consider the rally any big deal.


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