Word: painting
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...wealth and comfort can be observed in the current evangelical brawl over whether comfortable megachurches (like Osteen's and Warren's) with pumped-up day-care centers and high-tech amenities represent a slide from glorifying an all-powerful God to asking what custom color you would prefer he paint your pews. "The tragedy is that Christianity has become a yes-man for the culture," says Boston University's Prothero...
...else boosts math scores? Well, don't laugh, but teaching on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers is better than blackboards with chalk. Students can simply see better. Another study showed that humming fluorescent lights are particularly hard on students - they make gifted students test "ungifted." And light blue paint on the walls of a kindergarten lowered misbehavior...
...accounts coming out of Iraq, this article has best captured the despair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. The laws of a democracy, or even a dictatorship, do not exist. The watercolors used to paint an encouraging picture are being washed away by the blood of people ruled by fear, not hope. Joe Macdonald Dartmouth...
...Hitler analogies are, of course, generally bad for democratic debate. They tend to stifle rational thought, paint one's opponents as Nazi sympathizers and appeasers, and reduce the complexity of foreign policy to a simplistic appease/don't appease framework...
...hotel as a backpacker hostel done right, the 50-room Phranakorn Nornlen, www.phranakorn-nornlen.com, wins the approval of its bearded, tie-dye clientele by incorporating recycled materials in almost every aspect of the fittings. Showerheads are hammered together from brass dessert bowls; remaindered tins of mismatching emulsion from the local paint shop give the walls a dappled charm; lamps are acquired from thrift stores. The location (a kilometer from Khao San Road) and housekeeping rules are equally boho: there's no smoking on the property, no TV in the rooms and organic juices are served at breakfast. LUXX: This newly opened...