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...escalation does not extend to all branches of Protestantism. Until World War II, mission endeavor was ruled by boards of such "mainline" denominations, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...
Traditional diet experts think hair analysis, saliva tests and the like are the scientific equivalent of junk food. "There are a lot of way-out quacks who are making a fortune," warns Dr. Myron Winick, a nutrition expert at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Though hundreds of thousands have entered the field, nutrition counseling is largely ungoverned. The unrestricted binge may be ending, however. Before 1982 no states had regulations; now 14 do. The most prestigious organization, the American Dietetic Association, has 43,000 members who have passed a certification exam...
...going to talk to kids that age about anal sex?" asks Al Wardell, a Chicago high school teacher and a gay activist. "I guess that's my teacher's prudishness." Young children's brains cannot assimilate such information, warns William Chambers, director of pediatric psychiatry at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. "For them, anal sex is going to the bathroom...
...visa. Washington has declined to bring pressure on the Kuwaitis to reconsider. Evidently as part of an effort to push the Reagan Administration to force a swap, Islamic Jihad over the past 13 months has released two of its American prisoners, Father Jenco, and the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary. Both had been held captive for more than a year. Waite had a hand in the two releases, though he has never spelled out his exact role...
...ever became so ill that only machines could keep her alive, Jacqueline Cole, 44, told her husband Presbyterian Minister Harry Cole, she wanted him to pull the plug. Last spring Cole, 44, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma. Her husband waited 41 days for her to recover, then asked Maryland Judge John Carroll Byrnes to order doctors to let the comatose woman die. Byrnes said no, it was too soon to give up hope...