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With 6 billion potential subjects of this newest evangelization, the revolution possible is beyond even Gutenberg's wildest dreams. But who will be evangelized? And who will do the evangelizing? The creation and maintenance of a Website, as compared with a radio or television broadcast, is neither difficult nor expensive. But only the richest of the people on the planet own the necessary equipment to visit such exclusive religious sites as those of the brothers of Christ in the Desert or the Vatican. The rich are at the top of the information mountain; the poor receive the leavings. While mainline...
Until just before the New Year, Gingrich thought he could tiptoe past the political graveyard. On Dec. 21 the House ethics committee released a 22-page report based on evidence assembled by James Cole, its special investigator. Most of its findings concerned whether the nationally broadcast college course that Gingrich taught, which was financed by tax-deductible contributions to nonprofit organizations, had partisan purposes. The subcommittee concluded that it had. Most damningly, the panel determined that Gingrich had misled committee investigators by signing false statements declaring that his political organization, GOPAC, had no involvement with the course...
...seven current and former Food Lion employees who gave firsthand accounts of the chain's unsanitary handling practices. Moreover, PrimeTime anchor Diane Sawyer noted that producers had collected similar horror stories from more than 60 other on-the-record sources. Food Lion filed suit against ABC even before the broadcast and now claims that the broadcast cost the company between $1.7 billion and $2.5 billion in lost sales and stock-price dips. But it has not filed libel charges against ABC. Rather, it has sued ABC and four PrimeTime producers for, among other things, fraud, trespass and deceptive trade practices...
Suddenly last week all those precedents were reversed. After 11 meetings between U.S. and North Korean officials in New York, Pyongyang made a rare apology. In a Korean-language broadcast to the world, the North expressed its "deep regret" for the submarine incident, promised to keep such things from happening again and sweetly offered to "work with others for durable peace and stability on the Korean peninsula." The North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea...
...watch a lot of cable TV, why not just go for old-fashioned free broadcast TV? A good set-top antenna can boost your reception. And to cut your telephone costs down to zero, use online tools such as Google Talk or Skype, which let you place free calls from your computer (if whomever you are calling has the proper software). As for Web access, check for free wi-fi in your neighborhood before you pay a lot to go online...