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POPSIndians vow to marry sex workers This story is really unconventional. Adds to the syncretic traditions of the continent. The group contains multi-religious members, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims. The leader's name is Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (Ram is a common Hindu name, Rahim is a common Muslim name and Gurmeet is common Sikh name). The group mostly offers community services, social welfare and spiritual leadership. And taking on prostitutes as wives - en mass - is unheard of. The Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) Wow.
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POPSU.S. Muslims are Americans too Americans are Christians, Jews, Hindus, agnostics, atheists, and anything else in between -- but Americans are also Muslims, millions of them, and Islam has now become integral to what the distinguished American sociologist Robert Bellah termed our "civil religion."
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POPSGoogle to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online “I can think of no better use of our time and our resources than to make the images and the ideas of your civilization available to all the people of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said.
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POPSA Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,” Once people are awake, he argued, their brain essentially revises its dream images to match what it sees, hears and feels " the dreams are “corrected” by the senses.
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POPSThe Home Buyers’ Tax Credit: What You Need to Know To curb fraud, the legislation also requires taxpayers to provide documentation proving that they purchased a home and requires taxpayers to be at least 18 to claim the credit. There had been reports of people as young as 4 years old claiming the original credit