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...image could be described as unintentionally double-edged. To a significant number of critics, far from bridging a gap, Akinola, 63, is actively involved in widening one. As primate to 17 million Nigerian Anglicans and head of an African bishops' group with a total flock of 44 million, he is one of the most influential leaders in the Anglican Communion, the global 78 million-- member confederation that includes the 2.2 million congregants in the Episcopal Church (U.S.A.). Indeed, he is the highest-profile figure in the southward shift of Christianity as a whole. Yet he may exercise that influence...
...implementing secondary fields was to attract more students to smaller departments as secondary concentrators, according to Rosenblum. Some professors, including Rosenblum, argued that it remains to be seen whether such a shift will actually occur.Deborah Foster, the director of undergraduate studies in folklore and mythology, said that if students flock to larger departments for their primary concentration, smaller ones might become, in essence, secondary fields.“Will students who have certain ideas about the future—or whose parents have certain ideas about the future—be able to do a secondary field in economics...
Here at Harvard, I see a climate of hatred for country music enthusiasts. People here flock to the treasonous saccharine-pop of Belle and Sebastian and the narcoleptic groaning of Iron and Wine, without even considering Big and Rich or Brooks and Dunn, both venerable duos in their own right...
...captured. Iraqi officials have offered varying descriptions of the fighters. They were first portrayed as al-Qaeda terrorists. Officials then acknowledged the Shi'a millenarian nature of the Army of Heaven, but still claimed the group was supported by Sunni terrorists and included foreign Arabs of the kind who flock to Iraq to fight under the banner of Sunni jihad...
...organ in their body, even in skeletal muscle and their brains, in a few cases. All wild birds have some level of parasites in their bodies, Gayle said. It was likely these 60, which appeared not to have eaten recently, were the most vulnerable and weakened of a large flock numbering in the hundreds. Increasing parasite levels made them weaker and more susceptible to sudden temperature change...