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From an AP article of the same title on beliefnet:

New York's highest court ruled Thursday that social service agencies run by the Roman Catholic Church and other faiths must provide birth-control coverage to their employees, even if they consider contraception a sin. The 6-0 decision by the Court of Appeals hinged on whether Catholic Charities and the nine other groups are essentially social service agencies, not churches. At issue was a 2002 state law that requires employers to provide health insurance coverage for mammograms, bone density screening and other preventive services for women, including prescription contraceptives. The law exempts churches, seminaries and other institutions with a mainly religious mission. Catholic Charities and the other groups sued the state for an exemption but lost in the lower courts.

Via Boing Boing:

Artist Michael Gross flooded a London church-turned-gallery with water. The "lake" hides a system of mechanically-moving steps that enable visitors to walk on water. The installation, titled Bridge, is up until October 29 at Dilston Grove.

From the gallery's description:

Each step emerges one step in front of you and disappears back underneath behind you as you go. This ‘bridge' is purely mechanical, the weight of the person on it depresses each step a little, this force activates a submerged mechanism which raises the next step.

The boys sported their costumes at school today. We went trick-or-treating from 6 to 6:30 tonight, and then the boys had fun passing out candy to visitors at our house.

Another web site recommendation (though I haven't personally tried this one yet): http://www.lala.com/ This site reminds me of bookmooch but for cds. Some differences: with la la, each trade costs a dollar and you can listen to the music before requesting a trade.

Tralfaz got another pitiful performance from the QB (this week Leinart). However, the performances of Reggie Wayne and Marques Colston made up for it by combining for 301 yards receiving, 5 TDs, and a 2-point conversion...helping us even our record at 4-4. Playing QB for Tralfaz seems to be a curse...Kurt Warner, Byron Leftwich, Matt Leinart, and Ben Roethlisberger have all felt the pain. Kitna ought to be glad that I only kept him for a week or two.