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March 28, 2008

Humanist Sunday School

Most people in this country believe in God, but in Palo Alto, Calif., one group has bound together to form an alternative spiritual home. Members of the Humanist Community, as they call themselves, don't discuss faith at their weekly?Sunday meetings. Instead, they replace God with the truths borne of their own reason, the findings of science and their free thought. They even run a Sunday school for their younger congregants. ABC's John Donvan reports.?Read more here.

The Garbage Patch

Floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a continent-size garbage dump of partially decomposed plastic sludge. Grocery bags, umbrella handles and other plastic castoffs make their way to this crossroads of ocean currents, to create the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This human carelessness has scientists seriously worried about a delicate ecosystem. ABC's Brian Rooney reports from Long Beach, Calif. Read more here.

Platelist

Michael Anthony,?the award-winning chef of New York's Gramercy Tavern, didn't grow up with a love of food.?It was only after moving to Japan after college that this Midwesterner fell into the culinary world, later traveling to?Paris to study the art of fine cuisine.?Now at the helm of Manhattan's most popular restaurant, he uses local ingredients to create simple, yet tasty, seasonal dishes. It's?another installment of the "Nightline" Platelist.

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