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A good friend of mine, Monica, works for Right to Life in South Bend, and I'm going to be verifying a few facts for her. I guess it looks better on record if somebody who's not employed by them does it, and these are all interesting details to me anyway. So over the course of the next week or so, the below items will have links and citations referenced next to them: Updated links and explanations below. More than one million unborn children are killed by legal abortions in the United States every year. Generated by The Alan Guttmacher Institute's Custom Table Maker: ( http://www.guttmacher.org/about ) ( http://www.guttmacher.org/tablemaker ) Country Number of abortions 1 # abortions by occurrence, 2000 (U.S. and each state) Source Source Source United States 1,365,700 nd U.S. total nd 1,312,990 na = not applicable, u = unavailable in original publication, nd = no data in database for this country/state. Footnotes 1. Rounded to the nearest 100. Source an...

My employer, Shared Marketing Services, Inc. , sponsored a group of us in the 2004 Race Judicata, a co-ed/team 5 kilometer (3.1 mile) walk/run competition, put on by the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Foundation . All that really means is that they paid our registration fee for us, there was a monetary incentive for us to place in the top 2 (which we didn't :), and the company prez, Rick, showed up to cheer for us! Young's cousin Charlie took a few pictures , but not many. There may be a couple more added later. Fun time! Unfortunate that a couple of the girls we had been training with couldn't run with us - Luann had just switched jobs, and Lisa's foot was acting up - but the group that did run had an awesome time - though painful, of course! :)

Well, I wish I woulda been with them, but there's always next time. A couple weeks ago my Dad, our Boy Scout troop, my buddy Eric, and his Dad, all drove up to Lake Superior and took a boat to Isle Royale National Park for a week. What's most impressive is that the boys had never been backpacking, nor the other adult leaders who joined them! They had spent a lot of time getting all the appropriate gear and food, and building up muscle enduration with regular workouts. I've talked to a few of them since then and they all loved it, and testify that the exercising paid off. This past Wednesday I drove out to Rockford to hang out with Eric and a few of his friends for the evening. That was a fun time, met one of the younger guys in his mens prayer group, Logan, and also his usual buddy Nate and a girl he's been hanging out with, Maria, and a couple of her friends. When we came back to his house I copied the 100+ digital pics from Isle Royal to my laptop, and ju...

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