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Even within the current evangelical wave, there is a broad range of methods and attitudes. Some missionaries, while maintaining the right to evangelize, primarily uphold the mainline tradition of funneling money and time to the Muslim needy. Others, from a distance, flood whole populations with Christian TV and radio, tracts by the tens of thousands and offers of correspondence courses, hoping that a few seeds will take root. In the dozens of Muslim countries that deny "religious worker" visas, ever more Evangelicals take secular jobs to enter less obtrusively. Many show exquisite sensitivity, sharing their Lord only with people whose...
...giant Swiss food company Nestlé jolted Berlin a few months ago by announcing that it is closing its candy factory in the German capital. The company will stop making "Yes" chocolate bars and lay off 450 people - another rainstorm feeding the flood of 250,000 manufacturing jobs that have been lost in Berlin since German reunification in 1990. With the city's unemployment rate at an astounding 18.4%, a dark mood of pessimism and angst has settled over Berlin as it struggles with a weak global economy, huge debts and unaffordable welfare provisions that have left the city bankrupt...
...spammers flood the Internet with ads nobody wants to read? Because some people do read them, and a tiny fraction actually respond--which in the world of direct marketing is like money in the e-bank. Take former spammer Scott Hirsch of Boca Raton, Fla., who sold his e-mail marketing business last year for $135 million and retired at the age of 37. Florida is home to more spammers than any other state, and Hirsch--who started his first bulk e-mail list way back in 1996--likes to take credit for helping make Boca Raton "the spam capital...
...studies suggest otherwise. As a fund becomes successful, it quickly begins to underperform its potential, even though it may keep outperforming its peers, according to Jonathan Berk, a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Richard Green, a business professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Why? Investors inevitably flood a winning fund with cash until the manager runs out of ideas and can no longer invest as profitably as before. So it pays to get on board early...
...judge’s findings met widespread disgust in Moorestown, where residents sent a flood of letters to their local newspaper denouncing Hornstine as “selfish, unappreciative” and “whiny...