A majority of Americans believe in the devil, especially blacks and women, according to a new national poll about exorcism. The YouGov survey found that 57 percent believe the devil lurks; 72 percent for African Americans and 61 percent for women. Republicans said the devil exists more than Democrats, 65 percent to 55 percent. LINK
“I still haven’t had a drink,” the Nebraska alum said. “I told my fiance that I’ll probably take my first drink at my bachelor party. I grew up Catholic, so it just started out as one of those things. I’d think, ‘If I do this, maybe I can get to heaven,’ so I said no drinks, no sex, all the big things.LINK
Scientists at the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health have put together an estimate of the total number of mammal viruses in the world. That number currently stands at 320,000. There are the global seed banks (currently 6 million varieties stored in 1,300 banks), the human genome, and now, viruses have begun to enter the big data fold. LINK
Their focus is the moral challenges that IVF and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) offer to parents who want a child of a particular type. After carefully framing the arguments, they endorse: embryo selection techniques to avoid disease and disability in children, selecting embryos to produce a child with a disability such as deafness, and sex selection.LINK
Los Angeles Unified has paid out more than $27 million to settle claims by nearly five dozen children who allege they were molested by former Miramonte Elementary teacher Mark Berndt, the district announced Tuesday.LINK
Employers noted that after the rains have been victims of prey at different points in Acapulco without the authorities were able to arrest people for attending the contingency. ‘s afternoon could see how people got to the Costco retail store located in the Diamond area, which is completely flooded. LINK
Sinking fast! LINK
After closing down the largest U.S. overseas military base in Subic two decades ago, the Philippines wants the Americans back to defend against itself China. Andrew Browne tells Deborah Kan why the U.S. Navy isn’t as optimistic about reopening its base in Subic. LINK
The ancient town may be Dalmanutha (also spelled Dalmanoutha), described in the Gospel of Mark as the placeJesus sailed to after miraculously feeding 4,000 people by multiplying a few fish and loaves of bread, said Ken Dark, of the University of Reading in the U.K., whose team discovered the town during a field survey.LINK