At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication.

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Patriarch Bartholomew, the senior bishop of the Orthodox Church, led his impressively robed guests in a silent supplication for the planet.

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Yop threw out his hands in supplication and his eyes bulged out.

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And so into their ihram they got, and headed for the mosque for some last minute supplication and quiet before heading off.

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Putting aside the spiritual benefits of supplication, a more pressing secular question might be phrased this way: Can strong prayer bend the medical cost curve?

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Nawab put his hands together in supplication.

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