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CBC News:Bedside Bibles returning to Fredericton hospital A hospital in Fredericton will be putting Bibles back in its bedside tables, but they’ll be wrapped in plastic to prevent them from transmitting germs between patients. The Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital stepped into a public relations nightmare last month when it removed the Bibles in the name of infection control. Critics said the move was either anti-Christian or a case of political correctness taken to the extreme. Hospital spokesperson Shelley Fletcher says it was neither – though she admits it was a mistake to round up the bedside Bibles without making arrangements for patients to get “clean” copies.

CBC Arts: Allergic reaction ends rapping marathon. An attempt by a Winnipeg hip-hopper to set the record for the longest rap ever has ended because of an allergic reaction. Tyler Tynes, who goes by the stage name the Hafrican, fell down Thursday after 14 hours of rhyming. He had been aiming to last for 24 hours. According to the Canadian Press, a message on the cell phone of the artist’s publicist, Jamie Hall, said the rapper “was only able to come in at 14 hours due to an allergic reaction to an energy drink, which caused him to collapse.

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CBC News:Vatican radio officials convicted A court in Rome on Monday convicted a Vatican cardinal and the head of the city-state’s radio station for electromagnetic pollution.

Salon — May 20, 2004.   A new school of traffic design says we should get rid of stop signs and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. It sounds insane, but it works.

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