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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/81F2C643-AF8A-4441-A12D-C7BA8A825509/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/missykiss/">missykiss</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://content5.clipmarks.com/content/0263C3D0-927B-41B0-B4A2-4535BC3D0019/" title="http://content5.clipmarks.com/content/0263C3D0-927B-41B0-B4A2-4535BC3D0019/">content5.clipmarks.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Marty Laubach, a sociology professor at Marshall University, says the number of followers of pagan religions is even higher now, citing a 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey that put the estimate at 1.2 million.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>My suspicion is that the first number was way too low due to people not responding," Laubach said. "The 1990 study was conducted at the height of the 'satanic panic,' which kept many neopagans in the closet."</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>While some subsets don't believe in gods, others, like Wiccans, worship many gods and goddesses. Women, in fact, are revered as the bearers of life in Wicca.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>A 2001 survey by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York found that the number of followers of Wicca, one of the many religions that fall beneath the pagan umbrella, increased from 8,000 in 1990 to 134,000 in 2001, making it the fastest-growing religion in America in terms of percentage increase.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Pagan weddings attract more than a cult following</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wiccan/" rel="tag">wiccan</a></div>http://content5.clipmarks.com/content/0263C3D0-927B-41B0-B4A2-4535BC3D0019/Mon, 05 May 2008 21:55:59 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/412DF301-B1D3-4BC4-B49B-07BDACFFEFAA/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/missykiss/">missykiss</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/" title="http://news.yahoo.com/">news.yahoo.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/missykiss/512/45897A41-A2FF-441E-8F84-258925DF3EEE.jpg" alt="Children sit on the branch of an uprooted tree outside a house in Yangon May 5, 2008. Myanmar's military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid response for the pariah state in southeast Asia. The casualty count has been rising quickly as authorities reach hard-hit islands and villages in the Irrawaddy delta, the former "rice bowl of Asia" which bore the brunt of Cyclone Nargis's 190 km (120 miles) p" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://news.yahoo.com/Mon, 05 May 2008 21:44:36 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8C0803F5-1B0C-405D-B731-1ABE9E2AC3D1/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/missykiss/">missykiss</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone" title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone">news.yahoo.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03;_ylt=An9_KqwTP3CSlgBcz3rJddr9xg8F/*http://www.ap.org"><IMG width="106" height="27" border="0" alt="AP" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/ap_logo_106.png" /></A> </DIV> Myanmar death toll could top 10,000, foreign minister says </H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P> YANGON, Myanmar - The death toll from a devastating cyclone in <SPAN id="lw_1210019287_0" class="yshortcuts">Myanmar</SPAN> could reach more than 10,000 in the low-lying area where the storm wreaked the most havoc, the country's foreign minister warned Monday. </P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cycloneMon, 05 May 2008 21:44:25 GMT