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No. 443: "Forging Ahead"

Named for the Roman god of fire and metalworking (and a symbol of Birmingham, Ala.), the Vulcans are a loose-knit, eight-member team whose leader trained as a concert pianist and now works out with Stanford's football coach. What is the Vulcans' mission?

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Wednesday's Question (No. 442)—"Swayed in the Water":

"We're sucked in a world of wickedness and vice, and we need to speak clearly without stutter or stammer," declared the Rev. Adrian Rogers, whose committee drafted the Southern Baptist Convention's revised Faith and Message statement. This morning, Wednesday, in Orlando, the group approved his one-sentence statement on women. What does it say?

"Why can't you all be more like Dr. Laura? No, wait, she's a Jew. Oh, forget it."—Anne Schupack

"Women should have women's names and men should ... oh, fuck!"—Daniel Radosh

"While being a woman is sinful, it isn't quite as sinful as being homosexual"—Steve Kiefer

"I'm telling you, cunnilingus and psychiatry will have been the death of this religion!"—Greg Diamond

"I don't know, but I'm hoping that right after ratifying this thing, the Kool-Aid was served."—Jon Zerolnick

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