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Dolores Mejia thought the Chicago Bears could use a Hail Mary. In fact, she said the prayer several times as she watched the 1986 Super Bowl, pairing the intercession to the Holy Mother with two other rosary staples the Our Father and the Glory Be before her team defeated the New England Patriots 46-10 and took home their first and only Vince Lombardi Trophy.
SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) The vast blanket of white sand overlooking Salvador is a place to escape rumbling traffic, pinging phones and crying children. A space to find solitude and, increasingly, God.
ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the stalks sprung right back up.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson's water system is in crisis. The big “Gotta Go” trailer is just one example of the city's desperation.