Word: churches
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Steve Maples and his church youth group from Springfield, Mo., traipsed across the wet lawn of Columbine High School one evening last week. They peered into windows, stroking the metal siding and running their hands along the taupe brick walls. "Seeing the school puts a realization that it really happened," said Maples. "When I looked into the cafeteria, I could see the pain that those kids must have gone through...
...channel, has "virtual" Dolby Digital (which simulates five-speaker "surround sound") and has a digital signal processor that allows one-button access to a variety of preset audio mixes. CD players have been offering that last feature for a while--you can simulate the echoey acoustic footprint of a church, for instance, or a jazz club, a movie theater or a concert hall. Another setting is designed for gamers, making explosions boomier and ray guns zappier. Technophiles will also like the dynamic-range adjustment, which makes loud sounds softer and soft sounds louder--a handy feature if you want...
...friend David Beasley, then the Republican Governor of South Carolina, gave the Greenville civic activist $200,000 of private money left over from his inaugural and asked her to help make the state's new work requirements for welfare recipients stick. Van Riper's mission: to persuade every church, synagogue and private civic group in the state to adopt one welfare family and guide it toward independence...
Today her private, nonpartisan foundation, Putting Families First, has become a national model. Nearly 900 groups statewide--from fundamentalist churches to liberal organizations--have signed on to help hundreds of families. The state department of social services recruits clients, 90% of them single mothers; the church or association puts together a team to help with everything from resumes to fixing a broken toilet to lining up free dental care. No one knew how the chemistry would work--or that the public-private partnership would help yield something valuable, even beyond a 65% drop in state welfare rolls...
...article entitled "50 Big Mouths We Hope Will Never Shut Up", Talk Magazine named Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Reverend in Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes two of the "Best Talkers in America...