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OUR VOICES JOINED TOGETHER IN UNISON: "Save us, O Lord, from the cynical mind that scoffs at truth and beauty and makes of no account those things which are of good report. " This weekly chapel prayer from my prep-school days didn't mean much to me at the time.

THE TERM FEMINISM was not in wide circulation in the 19th century, but the concept was. People talked about "women's rights" or used the phrase "the Woman question.

" WHY DON'T YOU HAVE A LITTLE MERCY ?" my friend asked. She wasn't asking for mercy but encouraging me to have mercy on myself.

"Job has come to realize that if he is patient and waits by his food bowl, all of his needs will be supplied," says Journal contributor Benjamin F. Gladden.

THE PLAN WAS , I'd leave the wilderness cabin I'd been lent for two weeks and hike up a mountain where I'd camp at the start of the alpine. The caretaker at the mothballed logging camp drove me to the beginning of the road.

MY AUNT AND UNCLE had just moved to a place in Napa, California. I took a week's vacation to go visit them.

I was weighing in after wrestling practice when one of my friends pointed out that I had a skin disease—ringworm—on my back. Because it's considered highly contagious, everyone was freaking out.

LIKE MOST YOUNG CHILDREN , my preschool-aged daughter, Jacqueline, usually elicits the same response when people first meet her: "Oh, she's so cute. " And I have to admit that I myself have delighted in her cuteness—her heart-shaped face, her blue eyes, her sweet smile.

The word immediately appears 55 times in the Bible. One dictionary defines immediately as, "without interval of time: STRAIGHTWAY.

1905 At the age of 26, an unknown Swiss patent clerk who worked on physics in his spare time published four brilliant papers that revolutionized science and altered the way we view the world. He announced that E=mc2 (translation: matter can be converted to energy—more energy than anyone could dream of, because the speed of light [c] clocks out at a staggering 186,000+ miles per second).