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...lifestyle, but, says one study, 84% of wives don't. "I had no clue how to be a pastor's wife," says Amy Andrews, 32, a mother of two in Rochester, N.Y. After nine years, "I still don't." Born in Ethiopia to missionary parents, Andrews had begun college in Fullerton, Calif., when she met Brian, a Stanford grad and aerospace engineer from Los Angeles. Six months after they began dating, he awoke one day with a calling. Hired by Vineyard Church, he moved with his new wife to their current post in 2003. Bored and lonely, Andrews Googled "pastor...
...multimedia festival in Austin, Tex., when the barebones service owned by Blogger founder Evan Williams, 34, was named the best blogging tool and attendees used it to meet up at parties. Since then, the fawning attention to the seven-month-old service has come full-circle as reviewers have begun to realize how boring most people's lives really are. (As if YouTube's gallery of puppy and kitten videos hadn't already driven that point home.) Nonetheless, Twitter has been the top term on blog search engine Technorati for the past two weeks...
...Airbus and Lufthansa, the manufacturer and close client, had picked JFK's Hangar 19 to launch the plane in New York. It was also the spot where Pan Am had begun the maiden voyage of the Boeing 747 in 1970. And it is in Boeing's shadow that the A380 flies. It hasn't helped Airbus that the $300 million plane was two years late to its own party. Airbus suffered a terrible financial year due to A380 production delays, costing it an estimated $6.61 billion in forecast profit. The company also plans to cut 10,000 jobs. It estimates...
Within Zimbabwe itself the tectonic plates have been shifting. Toward the end of last year the divided opposition called a truce to work together under the banner of the Save Zimbabwe Campaign. More significantly, Mugabe's own ruling zanu-PF party has begun to split as potential successors become impatient for power. After years of playing off one faction against another, there is now no credible successor whom Mugabe can trust to allow him to retire in peace. He rules now through the Joint Operation Command made up of senior army, police and intelligence officers...
...Harvard’s early action program to an end, said. “Derek can certainly claim a major share of the credit.”Others say that Bok’s chief accomplishment has been helping Harvard heal while tying up the loose ends of initiatives begun under former President Lawrence H. Summers.“He brought the energy necessary to bring the faculty through a calming year,” said Everett I. Mendelsohn, a professor of history of science. “He didn’t try and stretch himself...