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...debate note that atheists are more dogmatically opposed to God than Evangelicals are to evolution, if only because aggressive creationism is neither a long-standing evangelical position nor a unanimous one. According to Edward Larson, a Pulitzer- prizewinning historian of the evolution debate at the University of Georgia, American support for it, now near 50%, hovered around 30% as recently as 1960. Today, Larson says, "it's a dynamic situation, with no unanimity." Evolution is taught at some Christian colleges...
...Russians have barred William Browder, a leading Western investor in Russia who has been a big critic of Russian corporate practices, from re-entering the country, after he was denied entry last November without explanation. And just last month, Russian officials refused to participate in a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia, sponsored by the International Energy Agency (iea), which discussed diversifying energy sources, and put pressure on other delegates from Western Europe not to participate either, or at least not to say anything that might offend Russia. "People were jittery," according to one person who attended. Resources Behavior like that does...
...southwest train for Danville, Virginia. There, Davis lingered long enough to issue a proclamation calling for continued resistance to Union forces. With Yankee troops hard on his heels, he then drifted farther and farther south: through Virginia's fields and leafy forests, into North Carolina, South Carolina, and eventually Georgia. As Davis's scattered generals-Lee, Joseph Johnston, and Richard Taylor, among others-one after another, laid down their arms, the fifty-six-year-old president, deep into spring, still nourished stubborn hopes. If he could somehow link up with Southern troops still in the field, perhaps those in Texas...
...Davis's luck, and with it his dreams, ran out: Union soldiers in Irwinville, Georgia finally caught up with and arrested him. Three weeks later, General Smith's forces in Texas surrendered; and on June 23, the Cherokee chief and Confederate general Stand Watie, aware of Smith's surrender, accepted the inevitable. He galloped into the tiny Indian Territory hamlet of Fort Towson-in today's Oklahoma-and surrendered his battalion of Cherokee, Seminole and Osage Indians to Union forces. The Confederacy had officially become a lost cause...
...slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose money when a customer charges a fill-up. "We get hurt when the price goes up--the opposite of what the customer thinks," says Stewart Spinks, who runs 38 Spinx stores in the Carolinas and Georgia. With gas at $3 per gal., Spinks hands credit-card companies about 7¢ per gal.--half of what he makes before paying employees and spending on equipment. So he has joined station owners in Tennessee, Minnesota, New York and elsewhere in trying to avoid credit fees altogether by enticing people...