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...term mission trips or play host to a stream of missionaries on home leave, their stories full of exotic places and changed hearts. Although they would never admit it, the returnees are Evangelicalism's paragons, making its philosophy of relentless outreach their lives' work. Says Beth Streeter, a Moraga, Calif., health-care consultant who left on a short mission trip to Egypt with her husband and two young children shortly after Sept. 11: "When you believe at your core that the love of Jesus Christ really is the best gift to humankind, you want to find ways and places...
...often grainy or blurry less than half a megapixel, compared with 3 or 4 for a good stand-alone digital camera--but that's part of their charm for some people. "I like the sense of immediacy," says Katherine Hardy, a phone-cam blogger and legal writer in Berkeley, Calif. Her collaborative site, at fotolog.net/phonecam launched this month with artsy pictures of ice-cream cones and urban fixtures such as neighborhood stores...
...brothers' atrocities for a prime-time TV soap opera or a month's worth of tabloid news. We know now that they were abusive, predatory, murderous criminals, but the oddly glamorized relish with which you chronicled their deeds has the scent of misguided Hollywood idolatry. DEAN LAMANNA Venice, Calif...
DIED. TONY ROMA, 78, restaurant magnate, who opened his first barbecue shop with his partner, chef David Smith, in North Miami, Fla., in the 1970s and expanded it into an international empire; of cancer; in Hemet, Calif. His enterprise went global after a Texas financier, on a jaunt to the Super Bowl, dropped by Roma's eatery for a meal and wound up buying into the business. Today there are more than 225 Famous for Ribs restaurants scattered over five continents...
Shortly after the war in Afghanistan, however, Coupounas set up a booth at an outdoor-gear trade show in Anaheim, Calif., and to his surprise, some of the same military buyers who had rebuffed him for years came clamoring for his goods. He started selling small batches of GoLite undergarments to special-forces units. Today he says he has a thriving military business, accounting for 10% of his roughly $5 million in annual sales. "We don't actively design for the military," says Coupounas, 37, who climbs 14,000-ft. mountains to personally test his firm's new products. "They...