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A charity in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., rebuffed a man who tried to make a donation in person because he refused a staffer's request to remove his religious headwear. "She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" said Gary Khera, who pointed out to WRAL News that he is a Sikh and a U.S. citizen. "We have a policy, and he didn't want to abide by it," said the Rev. Ron Weeks, executive director of the Union Mission, noting the facility requires that men remove any head coverings indoors. He said the mission would welcome Khera's donation if he mailed it or had his wife bring it in.
People become emotionally invested in their virtual identities, according to Ellen Helsper, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, who has studied the impact of the Internet on relationships. "For a while, there was this impression that as long as it's online, it doesn't matter," she told the Associated Press. "But research has shown it's not a separate world." She added that infidelity was "just as painful, whether it's electronic or physical."U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq are anything but underfed, thanks to well-stocked mess halls that serve barbecued ribs, fried chicken, rib-eye steak, lobster tails, crab legs, roast turkey, stir-fry, cheeseburgers, freedom fries, breaded shrimp and an array of other feast treats, topped off by calorie-rich desserts. The Chicago Tribune reported that 150,000 troops in Iraq live on large bases, where combat rations have given way to smorgasbords. "You have to have an iron discipline," Sgt. Robert Carmical of Contingency Operating Base Speicher told the paper. "A lot of people turn to food for comfort, and the opportunity is there."See the full content of this document
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When a 29-year-old man showed up at a police station in Jackson, Mich., for a background check required by the company where he was applying for a job, the computer system showed he was wanted on a domestic violence charge. Deputy Police Chief John Holda told the Jackson Citizen Patriot that while searching the man, an officer found several rocks of cocaine.GOD BLESS AMERICAA charity in Roanoke R...See the full content of this document
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