Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even as older churches in Europe and the U.S. are emptying, faith is thriving in the sprawling lands south of the Sahara. As is so often the case, spiritual strength is inspiring -- and being inspired by -- an outpouring of artistic creation. "We are on the verge of a golden age in African Christian art," proclaims Jesuit Father Engelbert Mveng of Cameroon. "The movement cannot be stopped, and it is bursting out in flower all over Africa...
Abayomi Barber, a Nigerian who makes the sign of the cross over each painting he creates, sees profound value in tribal cultures. "The birth of a child, coming of age, marriage, death and the spirits of our ancestors -- all these needed to be illustrated and represented as supernatural manifestations. This is the basis of our art. We are still interlinked with nature." More radically, Cameroon's Father Mveng wants to fling the church doors wide open to fetishes and magic charms. In Africa's interreligious melange, Muslims are creating images for Christian churches that are not allowed in mosques. Animists...
...been quick to reject the Mommy Track idea. Says James Cohune, a spokesman for McKesson, the San Francisco-based pharmaceutical and health-care-products distributor: "I can't imagine a company keeping someone down who wanted to move up, just because she had a family. That's the Stone Age." Another California giant, the Chevron oil company, offers flexible work schedules for working mothers but does not shift them to a slow career lane. Says Dave Hufford, manager of employment policies for the firm: "We all have to balance our personal lives with our career demands...
...woman on a slow track for a whole career, even though the critical child-rearing years constitute only one brief phase of her life. Says Jayne Day, mother of a six- year-old daughter and a partner in the Manhattan office of the accounting firm Peat Marwick: "How, at age 25, is anyone going to make a personal decision about what track to be on? Firms need to be more open and flexible...
Doctors have long known about other risk factors for cervical cancer, including sexual activity at an early age and sex with multiple partners. And they have implicated some types of human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes genital warts, as the probable culprit. The University of Utah researchers, however, could only speculate about a possible mechanism by which smoking may cause cervical cancer. Harmful components of cigarette smoke, they suggest, may travel through the blood into the tissues of the cervix and somehow activate the virus...