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David Van Biema did a wonderful job of writing "Does Heaven Exist?" [RELIGION, March 24]. Yet the impact is lost when you include a chart of a telephone poll that purports to tell readers what America thinks. This is surveyspeak, polltalk at its most ridiculous. If there are 250 million people in the U.S., your polltakers reached 0.000407% of the population. To permit such balderdash when dealing with heaven and hell, you risk a lot. JOHN VAN DOORN New York City...
...chart of these students' grades revealed that, on average, minority students scored higher than their peers who did not participate in the experiment...
...like there really is, unless you call social psychosis addiction. And it's not even like that, that you need a cigarette. And that chart your friend drew correlating the number of drinks to the number of cigarettes, with the threshold at two Heinekens, that's funny, and somewhat true, but statistically inaccurate...
...maintains two touring companies, and producers are putting together a third. The show will return to the U.S. in September after a string of sold-out performances last year. Riverdance the CD won a Grammy last month and remains the top-selling album on Billboard's world music chart. pbs broadcasts of both productions have garnered high ratings for the network during pledge-drive months. Taped versions of Riverdance and Flatley's new opus are, respectively, the second and third best-selling home videos in the country (just behind Bambi...
...plane's cost by building more of them, then sell the extras overseas. The problem is that the Air Force says it needs the plane to counter, in part, U.S. airplanes that have been sold overseas. Then, of course, General Ralston could add the F-22 to his chart of potentially hostile foreign warplanes. Says former Navy rear admiral and aviator Eugene Carroll Jr. of the private Center for Defense Information: "We're in an arms race--with ourselves...