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...time religion. The church had 500 members in 1974; today it boasts more than 7,000. The average age of members is 35, and nearly half are men. Bethel is proudly Afrocentric -- a bright mural of African faces is painted over the altar -- and has traded its pipe organ for a jazz band. Pastor Frank Reid, 39, holds degrees from Yale and Harvard Divinity School...
...break was most likely caused by the age of the approximately 100-year-old pipe, workers said. They estimated that the gas main had been broken for approximately a month...
...wake of the feminist movement, some men are beginning to pipe up. In the intimacy of locker rooms and the glare of large men's groups, they are spilling their bile at the incessant criticism, much of it justified, from women about their inadequacies as husbands, lovers, fathers. They are airing their frustration with the limited roles they face today, compared with the multiple options that women seem to have won. Above all, they are groping to redefine themselves on their own terms instead of on the performance standards set by their wives or bosses or family ghosts...
...employees were quick to ask where the new association's funding would come from. Frolov did not say where he would get the 1 billion rubles needed to cover a year's rent on a television studio for the planned video show. But foreign advertising may be a pipe dream. Last May Pravda offered 150 U.S. business executives the opportunity to run full-page ads at approximately $50,000 each; the response was tepid...
...even if that obstacle could be hurdled -- which is surely a pipe dream -- there is still the tricky matter of Saddam's ultimate designs. From his assumption of power in Iraq in 1979, Saddam has sought regional hegemony: if not by outright territorial conquest, then by the application of military muscle to dictate oil-production quotas, pricing arrangements and regional diplomacy. Beyond that, Saddam's animosity toward Israel remains unappeased. Without his military might, Saddam is just another bit player...