Word: barna
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...conversation from Black Bible Chronicles is just one of many new attempts to make the Bible get with the program. One-third of American adults today have trouble decoding the King James Version, and 70% of teenagers in a typical week do not even bother to try, according to Barna Research Group, a religious polling firm. So religious publishers, eager to expand a $400 million Bible industry, are out peddling niche-oriented Bibles in a Babel of new interpretations and formats -- or, to paraphrase Shakespeare, quoting Scripture for their own purposes. "In a Baskin-Robbins % society, people don't want...
...though his stiff finale offered more stumbles than magic. He didn't win the gold medal so much as he didn't lose it. Far more satisfying were the performances of the runners-up. Defying smug expectations, two lyrical skaters -- Paul Wylie of the U.S. and Czechoslovakia's Petr Barna -- claimed the silver and the bronze, respectively...