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...Christian Fitness for Ladies in Pasadena, Md., and going there fit her schedule. But what really grabbed her were the King James Bibles and the wall that read, "And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men." A bulletin board in the lobby posts a prayer list with such intentions as "safe and healthy weight loss"; the sound system plays hymns mixed to an aerobic beat. The gym is "about the individual and his or her relationship with God," says Pitz, working out on the adjustable hydraulic machine...
...think the government has already gone too far by allowing the yuan to increase by 2.1%. In the days following the revaluation, China's websites hummed with nationalistic criticism of Beijing for knuckling under to American pressure. "How very obedient we are!" read one typical posting on a popular bulletin board run by the People's Daily newspaper. "China will become a puppet colony that breathes the air exhaled by Western countries," read another. Beijing may have taken an important first step toward a more fair and open currency regime. But amid a world of countervailing economic interests, China must...
Moscow's mood swings were carefully monitored by newsmen from other members of the Warsaw Pact, who adjusted the tone of their reports accordingly. The trench-coated cadre kept watch on the summit press center's bulletin boards, which displayed the latest dispatches from the government news agency TASS. Declared Boris Tchakarov, correspondent for the Sofia daily Zemedelsko Zname (Agrarian Banner): "I want to see how TASS is writing about events." In the East bloc news game, not only do you get no extra points for scooping the big guys, you might lose some...
...unemployed. A handful of Identity churches, like Butler's, hold services in traditional places of worship. But the network includes little-noticed groups that meet in private homes and individuals who regularly receive audiocassettes and publications in the mail. The word is also spread through contacts in prisons, computer bulletin boards and shows on public access channels on TV cable systems, which are required by law to air material from local citizens...
...defeat it. At the height of the video-game craze in the early 1980s, youthful pirates raced one another to be the first to make a working copy of each new game disk. In one remarkable coup, a freebooter calling himself Bozo NYC posted instructions on a computer bulletin board for pirating Sirius Software's Phantoms Five two weeks before the game appeared in stores. Even Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak got into the act, writing, for private consumption, a "liberator" program for VisiCalc, the original spread-sheet program. He called his program VisiCrook...