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...HEALTH Preach chastity or offer condoms? How to save teens from AIDS...
Fish gotta swim. Locusts devour the countryside. Lawyers sue. For all the American plague of overlitigation, lawyers also act as a kind of priesthood in the rituals of American faith. Most religions preach a philosophical endurance of the imperfections of the world. Suffering must be borne. Americans did not come to the New World to live like that. They operate on a pushy, querulous assumption of perfectibility on earth ("the pursuit of happiness" -- their own personal happiness). That expectation, which can make Americans charming and unreasonable and shallow, is part of their formula for success. But it has led Americans...
...Mormons' proselytizing tradition has made Utah attractive to companies in the U.S. and abroad. Each year the church sends out thousands of young men (and some women) to live abroad and preach the Mormon word -- in the local language. As a result, Utah has a disproportionately high number of people who are fluent in foreign languages, a prime selling point in the global marketplace. Compeq, a Taiwan-based computer-board maker, decided to open its first overseas plant in Utah in part because its managers knew Utah has hundreds of Mormon missionaries familiar with their country's culture and language...
...Disco Dolly into a more substantial, surrealistic Poly Dali incarnation. For a long time, she seemed like a rebelette without a cause vamping for the world's attention. Now she has it. Not content to continue spinning out mere dance-floor fodder, she has used her bully pulpit to preach scantily clad homilies on bigotry, abortion, civic duty, power, love, death, safe sex, grief and the importance of families...
...exposition. Dyer's new book, The Rise of Babylon, which argues that Saddam's announced plan to build a replica of that ancient city is an omen of the Last Days, has sold 180,000 copies just in the past two weeks. Ratings are up for conservative televangelists who preach about impending apocalypse. Among them is the Rev. Jack Van Impe of Detroit, whose scriptural prophecies point to an Iraqi defeat but also to eventual world war in this decade between Russia and the West...