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...become the latest hot missions field. Figures from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, suggest that the number of missionaries to Islamic countries nearly doubled between 1982 and 2001--from more than 15,000 to somewhere in excess of 27,000. Approximately 1 out of every 2 is American, and 1 out of every 3 is Evangelical. Says George Braswell Jr., a missions professor at the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary: "We're having more now than probably ever before go out to people like Muslims." Sept. 11 appears only...
Kerry wants the government to help pay for catastrophic health-insurance claims (those in excess of $50,000 a person). These represent only 0.4% of all claims but 20% of all health-insurance payouts. Ken Thorpe, a health-policy expert at Emory University, says such a plan would allow insurers to reduce current health-care premiums 10% across the board. Kerry would also provide tax subsidies for those who don't have health insurance, as would several other Democratic presidential candidates. He would pay for the expanded coverage by rescinding the upper-bracket Bush tax cuts, as would the others...
...increasing number of Hirsch's imitators, spamming is a numbers game that rewards excess. "The more times they deliver the message, the more money they make," says Charles Curran, general counsel for America Online, which last week filed lawsuits against more than 100 spammers. "They all want to get as close to infinity as possible." This is getting easier all the time, as high-speed Internet access gets cheaper and computer processor power continues to double every 16 months. Meanwhile, the software tools for spamming continue to improve. Web crawlers harvest e-mail addresses en masse from chat rooms...
...many, many more. Bell then crams as many of these characters as he can into these stories, making them teem with life. Little critters run around in the corners of panels just doing their own thing. Kinetic and cute, Bell's art looks like no other, combining silly excess with a clarity of design and arrangement. Occasionally he will even surprise you with a visually daring cutaway-style panel that, for example, shows both the exterior and interior of Paul's nipple, where his brother Saul lives...
...wrote. “The image is that students’ attention, energy, or at least time is a finite resource, and that the way to focus more of it on academics, and thereby improve undergraduate education, is to limit the amount that can be spent extracurricularly; the excess will inevitably wind up in the academic sphere...