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...mood in the nation's most Baptist state supports that threat. The Baptist General Convention of Texas is a 6,000-congregation powerhouse. No liberal refuge, it supported the outlawing of abortion and expelled a congregation that ordained a gay deacon. Nevertheless, it thinks nothing of ignoring SBC edicts. When the SBC demanded wifely subservience, the Texans simply took their own vote and let the women stand tall. And the Texans' patience seems to be wearing thin. Speaking of his organization's $40 million contribution to the national convention last year (roughly a quarter of the SBC budget), David Currie...
...state media trumpeted classical music and koranic verses--a TV prayer vigil for the 69-year-old dictator. The cameras captured weeping members of the Syrian parliament mourning the onetime air force pilot who had taken a poor nation of 17 million and made it, well, still poor but nevertheless a pivotal player in the Middle East...
...such total vindication is about as likely as the Cubs' winning the World Series this fall. "It's not a question of total reversal," says Washington antitrust lawyer Joseph Kattan, "but [of] whether the company gets broken up." Nevertheless, there are a number of factors that could help the company slip its noose at the 11th hour. Some are more persuasive than others...
Reality check: national crime stats continue to decline, including the murder rate. Nevertheless, in a few large cities, the murder numbers have spiked upward, sending a tiny shiver of concern among citizens. Just as stock-market tremors have presaged body blows to the new economy, are these sporadic rises in homicide omens of bad things to come...
...Italy,each claimed to have found a way to make light travel faster than its regular cruising speed of 186,000 m.p.s. According to the special theory of relativity, that's verboten; the velocity of light is supposed to be the cosmic speed limit, which nothing can exceed. Nevertheless, a physicist, Lijun Wang of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says he revved up a beam of light as much as 300 times its normal speed, using a special chamber filled with cesium gas. Now let's see him prove...