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A Michigan woman who intended to pay off an overdue $20 balance on her department store credit card now says she intends to sue the company instead. Lisa Ratliff said she was planning to pay the bill, but when she started getting multiple reminder calls every day, she got so annoyed that she decided…

Officials in Brussels, Belgium said there has been a delay in starting repairs to the streets of the city. They said underground tunnels beneath the city are crumbling, and the roadways are in poor shape, and rather than blame bureaucracy, the officials told parliament that problem is mice. During a…

A study conducted by researchers in Germany has found that stress may be contagious. The results suggest that stress can be transmitted to people simply by watching other people confront anxiety-provoking situations through television programs or motion pictures. Researchers paired people either as an…

Actor Christopher Walken is a nervous wreck. He refuses to fly. When he travels he wants to be driven in a Limousine. He doesn’t like to go outside in London because he is afraid he will look the wrong way in traffic while crossing a street. He tells his wife, “Stay in the hotel. Don’t go out there.…

The newest member of a Cincinnati area police force specializes in a different kind of law, God’s law. Pastor James Love doesn’t carry a gun or wear a badge. As the new Chaplain of the force, he will offer a safe place and a listening ear for the officers he serves beside. Love says his job is to care…

The appearance of a mysterious noise has residents of a small English community baffled. Residents of Woodland in County Durham say the noise, termed “the hum” has been heard every night for the past two months, and resembles the sound of car engine. Sometimes the hum is so strong that it shakes beds.…

In Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives, Richard Swenson writes: “Anxiety is the looming belief that circumstances will imminently become painful and hopeless.” --Margin, Kindle Loc. 364 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Mark 4:19 (CEV) But they start worrying…

FORGIVENESS The current financial problems in America have resulted in job cuts, decreases in salaries, and lower house prices. Though financial strain often tears marriages apart, the poor economy has also decreased the number of couples filing for divorce. The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers…

ANXIETY According to the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology anxiety among children is at an all time high. In fact, healthy children reported more anxiety during the 1980s than child psychiatric patients reported 30 years earlier. “Contrary to views that children have…

DISTRESS/TROUBLE The deputy finance commissioner of the state of Tennessee recently spent an evening in an elevator because a phone bill was never paid. Jerry Adams oversees the state's $25 billion dollar budget. He was working alone on weekends, when an elevator he was in broke, stranding him between…