Word: presbyterian
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...growing audience for apocalyterature extends even into mainline Protestantism, a tradition that has spent little time on fire and brimstone. "I would go for years without anyone asking about the End Times," says Thomas Tewell, senior minister of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in midtown Manhattan--hardly a hothouse of apocalyptic fervor. "But since Sept. 11, hard-core, crusty, cynical New York lawyers and stockbrokers who are not moved by anything are saying, 'Is the world going to end?', 'Are all the events of the Bible coming true?' They want to get right with God. I've never seen anything...
...account, Prescott had shirked top positions as a Radcliffe undergraduate. But in New York, Prescott championed the establishment of the Medical Center Nursery School at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. She organized a group of the hospital’s mothers, battled the opposition of the city’s buildings department—and the hospital itself—and even telegraphed the mayor...
...runaway slave who became a Presbyterian minister in Princeton, N.J., Paul showed grit from early manhood. When he went out for the Rutgers University football team, other players beat him up and pulled out his fingernails; he bore the abuse to prove his worth, and when he graduated he was a two-time All-American and the school valedictorian, exhorting his classmates to "catch a new vision." Robeson did. Four years later he was starring for O'Neill, giving the first concert composed entirely of songs by African Americans and playing the two lead roles (as a philandering preacher...
...trace the struggle between hope and biology back to Genesis, when Abraham and Sarah gave thanks for the miracle that brought them their son in old age. "She was the first infertile woman," notes Zev Rosenwaks, the director of New York Presbyterian Hospital's infertility program. "It was so improbable that an allegedly menopausal woman could have a baby that her firstborn was named Isaac, which means 'to laugh.'" The miracle stories have fed the hope ever since, but so does wishful thinking. "It's tremendously comforting for a 34- or 36-year-old professional woman to imagine that...
...others. Although 14 states have defeated similar legislation, four more--Georgia, Illinois, Hawaii and Tennessee--have bills pending. And how will managed care respond to all the potential new prescribers? "We are not yet in a position to make a statement," says a spokeswoman for New Mexico's Presbyterian Health Services. Insurers across the country may have to get themselves in position soon...