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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only Sunday school but also long lists of elective courses for adults or specialized ministries, for instance for the hearing impaired or developmentally disabled. Groups can be targeted to Vietnamese immigrants, young divorces, 50-plus singles or compulsive eaters. "When you help people, your congregation grows," says Pastor Tommy Barnett of the mushrooming First Assembly of God in Phoenix. Barnett's church has programs for AIDS patients, the wheelchair users, transients and alcoholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superchurches And How They Grew | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...China in a special category," says Harry Harding, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "The need is for a realistic relationship, but both sides want romance." This romanticism is rooted "in our history, in the missionary presence, the traders," says Doak Barnett, professor emeritus of Chinese studies at Johns Hopkins University. "At times we are too enthusiastic. Other times we feel disillusioned, totally negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Getting China Wrong | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...after a tour full of fire fights and body bags with the Tenth Cavalry, only to drift to Mexico and then Hawaii. He supported himself by growing the powerful local variety of marijuana known as pakalolo but, after a recent crackdown by drug agents, has switched to fishing. Patrick Barnett (not his real name), on the other hand, who is originally from Honolulu, lived for years under trees and bushes in the Waipio Valley, subsisting primarily on breadfruit, mangoes and bananas. "My first 14 years on this island were spent in hiding," says Barnett, who is stooped, almost toothless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In America | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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