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...conjures up stark visions of hospital beds and group therapy in drafty rooms. Hoping to change that is the Sanctuary?a new, five-star detoxification center for those with problems of addiction (to anything from alcohol to drugs to gambling), located in the stunningly beautiful surrounds of Australia's Byron Bay. Its clients are entrepreneurs, top professionals and other affluent individuals for whom the subject of addiction may be painfully taboo. Instead of opting for a neighborhood 12-step program, they would rather ensconce themselves in the opulent seclusion of the Sanctuary's beachfront villas, which come with...
According to Byron D. MacDougall ’07, “It wouldn’t have helped me any more than if I had taken the time to talk to two or three of my older friends and listened to their perspective on the whole experience… Then you can judge both the advice and the person it comes from for yourself...
...whether he gets it," says Kevin Peterson, who runs a voter-registration group in Boston. Kerry is well remembered for saying, in a 1992 speech, affirmative action was "an inherently limited and divisive program" that "kept America thinking on racial terms." Though a Democrat, Massachusetts state representative Byron Rushing has said he will not campaign for Kerry until he sees a strategy that will energize black voters. "People want to like Kerry. People want to be enthusiastic about him. But for whatever reason, they're not," says Julianne Malveaux, a Washington-based black activist and writer who attended a recent...
...capita prison population--2 million--and a repeat-offender rate of more than 50%. But there is growing evidence that inmates who participate in religious programs while incarcerated are less likely to return once they get out. A 2003 Texas study, done by then University of Pennsylvania sociology professor Byron Johnson in conjunction with the Manhattan Institute, found that only 8% of inmates involved in faith-based activities returned within two years after release, compared with 20% for inmates of similar backgrounds and offenses who had no religious routine. In another study, to be published in this month's issue...
...experience is akin to rehabbing a muscle you had forgotten you had. Thus in this Lenten season the Rev. Byron Shafer, pastor of Rutgers Presbyterian Church on Manhattan's Upper West Side, gave his first atonement sermon in "eight or nine years." Chicago First United Methodist's Blackwell found himself lined up with two other talking heads on MSNBC, debating the topic as if it were an election issue or celebrity trial. And back in Geneva, the issue continues to fascinate the Bible students and their church's associate rector, Tony Welty. "The question is," says Welty, "O.K., if this...