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...letter sent last month to NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, former astronaut Rusty Schweickart, B612's chairman, called attention to the Apophis dilemma. He urged that a radio transponder, similar to those on commercial airliners, be landed on the asteroid so that astronomers might track its orbit precisely to determine if it will pass through a keyhole, and he requested that NASA quickly estimate the time required for both landing the transponder and a subsequent deflection mission that could alter the asteroid's orbit...
When Deborah Williams received the devastating diagnosis of Parkinson's disease last spring, she needed spiritual support. She also needed a haircut. She got both at Classic Body Image Salon & Day Spa, a Christian beauty parlor in Blacksburg, Va. When Williams told owner Cindy Griffin about her illness, Griffin, 35, and another hairdresser ushered her into a massage room where, Williams says, "we all just held hands and we cried and we prayed together...
...Griffin, the salon owner, says the business was her calling. "The Lord just kept putting in my heart that this is what I needed to do," she says. Still, when she first opened her salon in 2000, she shied from identifying the business as Christian. "It's risky because we're a small community," she says. "You might turn people off if they think, At that salon, they're going to preach Jesus to me." In recent years, as her clientele solidified and evangelical Christians gained prominence nationwide, she grew bolder. She had Scripture stenciled on the walls and named...
Christian entrepreneurs feel confident that their time has come. "In these days the Lord is trying to wake up people, and I think he's raising more people that are Christians in businesses," says Griffin. "He's given Christians favor because they do listen to him." Philip DeLizio, a real estate broker in Glen Burnie, Md., felt the time was right to join a network of Christian real estate agents: "Ever since 9/11, I think America as a whole has become maybe a little more religious or spiritual. I'm not going to say that was the reason we went...
...some extent, homogeneity is a result of self-selection: Christians are more likely to apply for and remain in jobs at Christian businesses. Owners like Griffin say they make their faith clear in the interview. "I say, 'Look, I'm a Christian. We do talk about Jesus here. We do pray with clients. And if you don't feel this is something you can handle, you might not feel comfortable in this environment.'" When she had a biblical mural installed at one location, a stylist stopped showing up at work. "She said Jesus was staring down...