Word: spencer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ballistic. Last March, Ben Witherington, an influential evangelical theologian at Asbury Seminary in Kentucky, thundered that "we need to renounce the false gospel of wealth and health--it is a disease of our American culture; it is not a solution or answer to life's problems." Respected blogger Michael Spencer--known as the Internet Monk--asked, "How many young people are going to be pointed to Osteen as a true shepherd of Jesus Christ? He's not. He's not one of us." Osteen is an irresistible target for experts from right to left on the Christian spectrum who--beyond...
...incidence of melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, has doubled in the U.S. since 1975 among women ages 15 to 29. This year 2,050 of them are expected to be diagnosed with the malignancy. "Skin cancer used to be something old people got," says Dr. James Spencer, a clinical professor of dermatology at New York City's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "Not a month goes by that I don't see somebody in their 20s now. That was unheard of 10 years ago." Doctors worry about the long-term consequences of adolescent tanning. The World Health...
...danced well. Steve Martin tried that last year with shopgirl. In the scene where he puts his hand on Claire Danes' naked back, audience members around me practically reached for their cell phones to dial child services. Meanwhile, the vicissitudes of show biz have done in the witty Spencer Tracy--Katharine Hepburn bickerfests, because they require people to actually pay attention. And let's face it, we have all drunk at the Tom Hanks--Meg Ryan soda-pop stand once too often. So, yes, our romantic-comedy appetites are limited...
Still, none of that guarantees success in the U.S. Marks & Spencer and J Sainsbury, both profitable retailers on their native turf in Britain, have limped home in recent years after failing to make good on their American ambitions. But Tesco is pursuing a carefully thought-out plan of attack, which will be executed by Tim Mason, Tesco's marketing director since 1995 and a leading figure in its bull run. Mason was the driving force behind Tesco's hugely successful Clubcard, Britain's first modern supermarket-loyalty card...
Fain touts the ship as a "city at sea," but that comes with some of the attendant problems. "The possibility of crime goes up, costs go up, and it gets more crowded," says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of Cruisecritic.com Royal Caribbean says on-board crime is rare, but hired a former top FBI official to run its security operations. Competitors warn that a ship this big can spoil a cruise destination. "Some ports just won't support 4,000 guests," says Bill Smith, vice president of Crystal Cruises, whose ships have no more than 1,000 passengers. "At that size...