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Friday, December 3, 1999 — North Shore News - 11

Drive-by praying so inclusive

ACCORDING to an October
report in’ the — Nortolk
Virginian-Pilot, a national
Christian “lighthouse move-
ment™ secks to pray for every
single person in the Unit
States by the end of next y
Among the techniques sug-
ge ing for the 10
households to your feft and
right and to the five in front;
praying for people listed in
telephone directories; and, in
rough neighborhoods,
“drive-by praying.” In late
August, a convention of relat-
ed groups met near Dallas to
assess how they could best
spend the remaining months
on their particular goal of
exposing every single

on Earth to Christianity by
the end of next year.

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The Wall Street Journal
reported in September on
efforts by the United Society
of Believers (better known as
the Shakers, named for the
way they tremble while wor-

shipping) to recruit new
members. By the mid- 1800s,
there were 6,000 membe
bur since part of their philos-
ophy is celibacy, there are
now only seven, living near
New Gloucester, Mais,
Though their original ph
ophy was built on “sepa.
from the world,” the

now have a Web site, give
musical concerts and sell
CDs,

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Police Blotter:
Stockton, Calif., arrested Tina
Watts, 28, in June and
charged her with cruelty to an
animal after she shot a neigh-
bour’s dog. She claimed the
dog had just bitten her four-
year-old son, but she later
admitted thar was
after police discovered that
the bloody dog-bite wound
was just a bandage she had
saturated with ketchup.

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Thieves living large: In

DISHWASHER SAFE

July, thieves stole more than a
mile of natural-gas_ pipeli
weighing 250 cons
Kotovskove, Russia.

In August, thieves stole an
entire neignborhood garden
in London’s West End.

In March, thieves stole an
11-pretabricated- building
high school, along, with its
sceurity fence, in
Elizabeth, Sourh Afri

And in July, thie

y single thing (except a
few clothes) out of a town-
house in Montreal, including
toilet paper on the holder.

QOG

Also, in the Last Month: A
40-year-old suicide, rigging a
gun to shoot himself in the
head, missed, sending 2
round into his groin
(Glendale, Ariz.). A woman
serving a life sentence for
stomping another woman to
death broke down in tears as
she told prison authorities
how 2 fellow inmate had
killed her cwe pet fish

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(Kingston, Ontario). A 270-
pound University of Kansas
toorball player got stuck in a
Taco Bell drive-thru window
wheh he climbed in after a
clerk who had screwed up his
chalupa order. Marthew Daly,
27, was arrested for pretend-
ing to. be a cop after he
stopped a driver who hap-
pened to be a real cop (New
York City). Nicholas G, Sober
was tcketed for Driving
Under the Influence
(Allegheny Township, Pa.).

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