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 Cardinal Roger Mahony was attacked last summer by one or more people apparently angered by the Roman Catholic Church s sexual-abuse scandal, according to priests who say they have heard him discuss the assault.Mahony, 71, told the priests about the attack during a conference in October, said the Rev. Joseph Shea, pastor of Holy Family Catholic Church in Glendale. The card stanley tumbler inal said it occurred in late July or early August as he was dropping off letters at a mailbox near Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles, Shea said. The comments people made as they kicked him were connected to the sexual ab stanley cup spain use lawsuits,  he told The Associated Press.Shea said Mahony was so badly beaten that the cardinal was hospitalized, and that it took him weeks to recover.Los Angeles Archdiocese spokeswoman Carolina Guevara declined to comment.         Whatever conversation might have taken place between the priests and their bishop was a private conversation and not meant to be public,  Guevara said stanley cups .Shea said Mahony did not report the attack to police  because he felt he could offer it up in reparation for the sins of others. Police have now contacted church officials to ask them about it, said Andrew Smith, assistant commanding officer for the Los Angeles Police Department s Central Bureau.       If it came to my attention that something happened to Cardinal Mahony, I would have called him and offered my assistance and assured that it was fully investigated ... which is exactly what  Lanl Steelers Hall of Fame cornerback Jack Butler dies
 For a brief moment, the internet was captivated by the thought of geckos copulating madly in a lost Russian satellite. Russia has since regained control of its lizard-sex orbiter, but the whole episode has gifted us an opportunity to consider a topic of extremely legitimate scientific interest. Namely, lizard sex in space.     The formerly lost Russian satellite, Foton-M4, launched into space on July 18 with a whole barrage of biological experiments ranging from fruit flies to mushrooms. We lusty humans, of course, zeroed in on the one male and four female geckos doing it lizard-style. Russian space control had lost control of the satellite   navigation, news accounts breathlessly reported, but the gecko-sex cam continued to beam reptilian porn do stanley thermos mug wn to Earth. Before we make any more jokes about pervy scientists鈥擨 do say this as someone who spent months watching fruit flies have sex in a lab鈥攍et   consider the scientific merit of sending animals for the sole purpose of sex. For decades now, scientists have b stanley quencher een investigating what microgravity does to sperm and eggs and embryos. Aside from the pure scientific benefit of better understanding reproduction, it   worth considering the long view鈥攐r, really, the very long view: If humans are really going to colonize space, we should know a few things about sex in space. And lizards are a great place to start. The mysteries of space sex We do know a thing or two about reproduc stanley cup quencher tion in space, and most of it is not good

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 DETROIT - Betty Ford, the former first lady whose triumphover drug and alcohol addiction became a beacon of hope for addictsand the inspiration for her Betty Ford Center, has died, a familyfriend said Friday. She was 93.       Mrs. Ford s death was confirmed by Marty Allen, chairmanemeritus of the Ford Foundation. He did not comment further, andsaid he expected the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museumwould release information later.      Betty Ford, whose husband, Gerald, died in December 2006, hadundergone surgery for an undisclosed ailment in April 2007. Duringand after her years in the White House, stanley cups uk  1974 to 1977, Mrs. Ford wonacclaim for her candor, wit and courage as she fought breastcancer, severe arthritis and the twin addictions of drugs andalcohol. She also pressed for abortion rights and the Equal RightsAmendment. Gallery: Betty Ford: An American originalVideo: Betty Ford on  60 Minutes Betty Ford: An independent first lady Timeline of Betty Ford s life       But it was her Betty Ford Center, a desert oasis that resc stanley mug uedcelebrities and ordinary people from addiction, that made herfamous in her own right. She was modest about that accomplishment.               People who get well often say, `You saved my life,  and`You ve turned my life around,   she recalled.  They don  stanley cup trealize we merely provided the means for them to do it themselvesand that s all.       That s a God-given gift as far as I m concerned. I don t takeany credit for providing anything that wasn  Kiev Greedy grooms    new demand:  Give us all your money!
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 A man who weighed 558 pounds when a judge preve stanley mugs nted him from adopting a child he and his wife had taken into their home underwent gastric bypass surgery in a bid to win the child back.Gary Stocklaufer, a 34-year-old truck driver, and his wife claim a judge unfairly discriminated against them because of his weight in deciding to give 4-month-old Max to another couple for possible adoption. The infant from Arlington, Texas, who is related to the Stocklaufers, had lived with them since he was a week old.This is considered the first case where a couple seeking to adopt has resorted to surgery in the increasingly prevalent practice of denying parents adoptions because they are obese, several adoption experts said.Officials in Missouri, where the Stocklaufers are from and where the judge s ruling was made, would not confirm the reason Max was removed from the couple s home, citing the confidentiality of ongoing court proceedings in adoption cases.But Stocklaufer told CBS Station KTVT correspondent Jack Fink that the judge felt,  I wouldn t live long enough to see the child grown, to raise the child.          Stocklaufer dieted before the surgery and weighed 480 pounds when he entered the Renaissance Hospital in Dallas for the operation that could help him shed more than half his bulk.Renaissance Hosptial and Dr. Wade Barker heard about Stocklaufer s story and wanted to help, so they offered to perform gastric bypass surgery on stanley cup  Stocklaufer fre stanley flasche e of charge.  Dr. Barker, Renaissance Ho Fpnf Can hunting endangered animals save the species
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 Sometimes a movie has subplots that are better off left on the cutting-room floor because they drag the whole thing down. But sometimes, a subplot adds a lot of depth, and you only get to glimpse how wonderful it could have been. Which science fiction or fantasy movie had a subplot you wish you could have seen more of      Please include a picture, clip, poster, piece of concept art or other r stanley travel mug epresentation of your chosen movie. And please mention the movie title  in case people are doing word search , and what subplot you wish had gotten more time to breathe. Thanks! Top image: We really needed more of Nebula and Gamora, the two daughters of Thanos, in Guardians of the Gal stanley cups uk axy. That one deleted scene gave us more hints, but we need way more of them. Hopefully in Guardians 2!                                                  stanley cup        MoviesStar WarsSuperheroes

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 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama s counterterrorism chief says the 270 people killed in the 1988 airplane bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, can rest more peacefully knowing that longtime Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi is dead.John Brennan made the comments Wednesday at a memorial service marking the 23rd anniversary of the bombing. Qaddafi s regime eventually took responsibility for the attack. Many victims were American.Brennan says Qaddafi s death adds special poignancy to this year s anniversary. He says the families of those killed can mark the day for the first time knowing that Qaddafi s regime has finally come to an end.The only person convicted in the bombing was returned to Libya in 2009. Brennan said the U.S. has repeatedly emphasized to Libya s new government the importance of dealing wi stanley tumblers th his case.                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-95ef1314- stanley mug 8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  righ stanley cup t-rail-recirc-item--id-95ef1314-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d         display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-95ef1314-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5          display: block;       Eijx Zimbabwe Girls Trade Sex For Food
 Clive Barker has been hired to pen a new Hellraiser movie. But this might a shame, because British-born, LA-based director Mike Le Han has created this short video for a theoretical Hellraiser reboot, and it   amazing 鈥?and horrifying. A lot of it is due to Paul Gerrard, the concept artist and production designer  who also worked on the upcoming stanley cup  fantasy flick Seventh Son . You can see a whole gallery of the concept art and behind-the-scenes over at the unofficial video   official s stanley us ite, but here are a few of our favorites stanley thermobecher : [Via Topless Robot]                                                        Clive BarkerHellraiserHorrorMovies

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 The Odd Truth is a collection of strange but factual news stories from around the world compiled by CBSNews s Brian Bernbaum. A new collection of stories is published each weekday. On w stanley cup eekends, you can read a week s worth of The Odd Truth.Bouncing Baby Bungle LONDON - A fertility clinic in south London is being shut down, after a mixup resulted in the wrong embryos being implanted into two women.Officials say the problem was spotted by the doctor and embryologist involved. So-called  emergency procedures  were used to prevent the women from becoming pregnant.An investigation into the incident criticized the lack of leadership at the clinic. But one health official called it an accident resulting from a lack of organization, rather than negligence.        This is the second IVF mixup made public in Britain this year. In July media reported that a white woman gave birth to black twins after problems at a clinic.Until Death Do You Part  JANESVILLE, Wis. mdash; The maid of honor was a witch. The best man wore a death mask. The happy couple looked a little scary.Tom Sletten and Traci Dunn decided to get married Sunday in a ghoulish ceremony at the Jaycees Haunted House, where both hav stanley cup usa e donated their time creeping out visitors.            Rock County Court Commissione stanley us r James Van De Bogart, who married the couple in a jack-o -lantern-covered vest, said the ceremony was standard, including the  until death do you part. The  scary  wedding was the bride s idea, said Cindy Clayton, th Bcey Arrest Linked To Embassy Bombing
 As the number of patients who receive opioid prescriptions to treat non-cancer pain has increased in the past decade, so too have the number of overdoses. A new study, however, finds that states that legalized medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010 had 25% fewer annual overdose deaths than the rest of the U.S.     More specifically, the research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine, found that overdose deaths from opioids decreased by an average of 20% one year after the law   implementation, 25% by two years, and up to  stanley thermobecher 33% by years five and six. The study comes at a time when the CDC has warned that opioid overdoses are  8220 kyrocketing. Since 1999, deaths from prescription painkillers have increased 400% among women and 265% among men. As the Boston Globe reports: The research team, lead by Dr. Marcus A. Bachhuber at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, examined state medical marijuana laws and opioid overdose dea stanley cup ths using death certificate data. California, Oregon, and Washington had medical marijuana laws effective before 1999. Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Verm stanley cup ont had medical marijuana laws effective between 1999 and 2010. Both of these groups of states were included in the research. Nine states, including Massachusetts, enacted medical marijuana laws after the study concluded in 2010, so data from these states ; recent legislation cha

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