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...Hangzhou church. The mandarins in Beijing have always reserved special venom for groups they label xie jiao, or evil cults. The most famous is the brutally suppressed Falun Gong movement, but the authorities may be tempted to extend that label to the Christian sects that are growing the fastest--those practicing fervid forms of worship that stress miracles and personal inspiration through prayer. A number of cultlike, pseudo-Christian offshoots have sprung up in the Chinese countryside in recent years, apparently inspired by this ecstatic form of worship. Often spawned by the personal ambition of their leaders, these highly secretive...
...will not [lose focus] of the primary goal: to alleviate the number one source of health problems and disease on this planet, which is water-borne pathogens... it may be that the fastest way to do that isn't through a non-profit, but to do a for-profit piece and then double-use the knowledge, the technology and the tooling. If we need to do that, and it speeds things up, not slows them down, we'll do that...
...part of a growing group of tourists seeking to enrich their spiritual lives while enjoying a big dose of good old, secular fun, whether in the Holy Land, on a Christian cruise or touring the missions of California--wine-tasting reception included. "Religious tourism accounts for one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism market," says Kevin Wright, religious-travel manager at Globus, an international tour company that offers 20 faith-based itineraries, up from eight in 2004. "We're talking about a $1 billion industry...
...cameras hit the mass market in 1997, consumers couldn't get enough of them. Within nine years, nearly 300 million digital cameras were sold, and half of all households in the U.S. and Japan owned one, as did 41% of all European households, making digital photography one of the fastest-adopted technologies of all time. Such dramatic change comes at a price: the icons of photography as we knew it tumbled. Polaroid went bust in 2001. Kodak stopped making film cameras in 2004. Now, however, it's the sellers of digital cameras themselves who have to worry about possible extinction...
...arising. The route the S1 chose for our dim sum run took us through Hastings and Main St., one of the most notorious intersections in Vancouver for drug use, prostitution and other malfeasance. Perhaps product developers should look into adding a new on-foot routing option - in addition to "fastest" and "shortest," perhaps there should be "safest" or maybe just "most scenic." Something to think about...