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Kathy Gilroy is a prominent anti-gambling crusader in Illinois. She has crusaded against gambling of all kinds; lotteries, casinos, internet poker, and other games of chance. A local café notified her that she had won $25,000 in a sweepstake game sponsored by the café. She has run into some public relation…

One Chinese Grandma’s superstition not only didn’t give her good luck, it caused a five-hour flight delay. Hoping to bring good luck she tossed several coins into the engine of the plane she was about to board. One of the coins entered the engine and forced the delay as mechanics checked for damage.…

A London-based diamond retailer launched a 1.14-carat diamond into the air attached to a weather balloon. The promotion announced that whoever found the diamond could keep it. Then things went a little haywire. It drifted off course and the tracking GPS system failed. For several months people carefully…

A Canadian dentist is hoping that chance and a little help from the media can help him find the girl of his dreams. On a trip to Ireland last year, Sandy Crocker, briefly spoke to a woman in a café in the Irish countryside. He says he usually does not instantly fall in love, but there was something special…

CHANCE Does fortune really smile on a select few people? What role does luck or chance play in our lives? The experience of a Wisconsin church suggests there are no such things as either luck or chance, but that God is involved in everything that happens. In August 1992, a tornado swept through a small…

Can't Take That Chance During a holiday to Israel, a man's mother-in-law died. She was in Israel with the family, so there was the difficulty of making funeral arrangements for her in a foreign country. The Israeli morgue explain that the body can be sent back to Australia, at a cost of $10,000, or she…