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...high school librarian, Warren was drawn to political activism and, growing up in Northern California, thought about one day running for public office. But he ultimately decided it would be more effective to follow in his father's footsteps "and change one heart at a time." After graduating from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, Warren moved back to California with his wife Kay and started Saddleback in their rented apartment...
...good as a weapon of mass destruction. It's easy to make, using a recipe you can get off the Internet. It comes from the castor bean, which is used around the world in products ranging from laxatives to brake fluid to nylon, and also grows wild in the southwestern U.S., so there's no shortage of raw material. But unlike anthrax, ricin is tough to aerosolize and inhale; the easiest way to deliver a fatal dose is injection or ingestion, and you need a lot for the latter. Ricin is powerful, but it's a retail, not a wholesale...
...Morgan. France may prove the primary battleground. Europe's largest low-cost carrier, Ryanair shuttles in and out of 16 publicly owned airports in the country, paying discount charges to the regional airports' authorities. The Commission says it is already looking into Ryanair's deal with the southwestern town of Pau. The airline is braced for further scraps, even if its bottom line looks healthy in the long run. "Are we expecting a rash of complaints?" says Ryanair's head of communications Paul Fitzsimmons. "Yes." O'Leary had better fasten his seat belt. Showroom Showdown Despite hopes for an upturn...
...women become petty, stingy and sadistic and acquire other "anal-erotic" traits. But the evidence suggests quite the opposite. "Many [seniors] still want and seek orgasms when they're in their 70s and 80s," says Dr. Kevan Namazi, former chair of the gerontology department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas...
...Commander of the British Empire," he says. "I will never be Sir David, Lord David or King David." He and his wife Jane spend most of the year in self-imposed exile in a compound on the rocky, wave-scoured coast of Cornwall, at the very southwestern tip of England, a surreal, almost uninhabited landscape of ancient stone circles, 12th century churches and sheep-dotted, wind-blasted meadows. He rises early to writeoften before 6and when he isn't writing, he takes long walks along the gray, fog-baffled cliffs...