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...Christian pop industry is also starting to produce some genuine stars--performers who are making an impact not just in religious-music circles but in the secular world as well. In part this is due to the fact that last year Billboard magazine's SoundScan system, which measures album sales nationwide, started to take into account purchases at Christian bookstores--where 85% of Christian pop albums are sold. As a result, pop crooners such as Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith, both veteran performers in the world of Christian music, saw albums they released in '95 climb higher...
...Residents still fondly recall that in 1975 Jimmy Carter and his press secretary, Jody Powell, saved six bucks by sharing a room at the Amber Inn. Local Democrats fell for Carter, but there weren't many of them. The place is Republican to the core and decidedly conservative. A billboard outside town welcomes travelers with the words ABORTION, THE CHOICE THAT KILLS...
...most notable elements of the commons are a lighted message board which runs the length of the commons and an electronic billboard on the back wall...
...city of Cambridge is a step closer to being billboard-free after a U.S. District Court judge denied this month that the prohibition of the signs constitutes a violation of free speech rights...
Opponents of the billboards contend that the signs incur structural damage on the buildings they adorn. Architects have attributed the deterioration of the Wursthaus building in Harvard Square partially to the stress from the billboard atop...