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...material and (supposed) spiritual needs, convinced that they are one of the great "unreached megapeoples" who must hear the Gospel before Christ's eventual return, Evangelicals have been rushing to what has 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...
...HUPD officers responded to a report of a hazardous condition at Gordon McKay Laboratory on Oxford Street. They safely secured the condition...
...this week - he was born June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India, where his father was an opium agent for the British Raj - has brought a tide of conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon Bowker (Little, Brown; 495 pages) and Orwell: The Life by British novelist and critic D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus; 466 pages). Also stoking the fire are two slimmer works: Why Orwell Matters by polemicist Christopher Hitchens (Basic Books; 211 pages) and an entertaining look at Orwell's second wife Sonia...
...Edinburgh. He's one of those insufferably gifted people who can dabble in this and that and do it all well, as can be seen in the professorially cluttered study in the Victorian flat he shares with his wife Elizabeth, their two daughters and a Tonkinese cat called Gordon. There are promo leaflets for the Italian translations of Mma Ramotswe, as his heroine is called according to Botswana etiquette; tomes on law and medicine; a report from Britain's Human Genetics Commission (he's vice chairman); dozens of his children's books (the first success was The Perfect Hamburger...
...COACH Gordon Graham...