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...returnees are still vastly outnumbered by the 42% of baby boomers who remain dropouts from formal religion. Roof's polling, however, found that most said they felt their children should receive religious training -- creating an opportunity that churches are rushing to meet. Two potent events that might draw dropouts back to the fold are having children and facing at mid-life a personal or career crisis that reminds boomers of the need for moorings. "You have to start thinking about God in the face of how to raise children in a society that has lost all connection to God," says...
...MOST POTENT SYMBOL YET OF THE new economic order being ushered in by the North American Free Trade Agreement: Anheuser-Busch, makers of Budweiser, the basic American workingman's beer, has agreed to buy 18% of the Mexican maker of Corona, favored foam of gringo yuppiedom. Anheuser-Busch, the St. Louis-based sultan of suds, has paid $477 million for nearly a fifth of Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V., the king of beers south of the border. The deal, which could be the first step toward an even greater presence in the Modelo empire, is Anheuser-Busch's first major...
Multiple sclerosis is considered an autoimmune disease, caused by the biological equivalent of friendly fire. For reasons that remain vague, cells of the immune system turn their potent chemical weapons against the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers in the spinal cord and brain. While the severity of the disease varies widely, the resulting nerve damage can cause progressive disablement that, after two decades, leaves 30% of patients in wheelchairs...
...lyrics for City of Angels were the wittiest in years. Graciela Daniele, a six-time Tony nominee, was recruited to mount musical numbers. The leads were cast with Bernadette Peters, the reigning diva of musicals, and Martin Short, an effervescent TV and film comic making his Broadway debut. So potent was the combination that a year in advance, industry leaders pegged the show to sweep the Tonys...
...Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...