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...International Bible Society, for example, has published Path to Victory ($2.25), a New Testament that includes profiles of such sports stars as Michael Chang, Orel Hershiser and Evelyn Ashford discussing their favorite scriptural sayings. Blank pages in the back are for autographs. Readers used to USA Today will get into the spirit of Thomas Nelson Publishers The Word in Life Study Bible ($19.99), which is highlighted with sidebars, graphs and charts on topics such as "Does God Work on Sundays?" For those for whom seeing is believing, there is The Bible Alive (HarperCollins; $25), which is illustrated by 250 photo...
...There is way too much street language," says Gleason Ledyard, a Christian book publisher. He says some people will be offended. Journalist P.K. McCary, who translated the first five books of the Old Testament into slang, insists that she is not "dissin' the Almighty." She has written biblical poetry and essays and developed the book by telling stories to children in Atlanta and Houston. The 39-year-old single mother believes she's filling a void. "While this is slang, it is not irreverent," she says. "It's a dramatic, colorful way of speaking. I think teenagers are going...
...last chance for revision will be in the House-Senate conference committee, where differences between the two bills will be reconciled. If small business fails to get a boost, it will mainly be testament to the lobbying clout of Big Business, which managed to escape its share of the burden by holding down corporate taxes and ducking the higher energy levies that Clinton had proposed. "We were done in on Capitol Hill," Bennie Thayer, chairman of the National Association for the Self-Employed, told a reporter. "Big Business once again...
Ultimately, the most dramatic policy shift could be the changing view of dams, long the symbol of man's dominion over nature. They are now seen by some as a testament to man's hubris -- redirecting rivers, flooding dry lands and evicting wildlife. For years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paid little or no attention to environmental issues as it relicensed dams. Now it is faced with a record number of relicensing applications -- 230 dams on 59 river basins -- and is using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many...
...HOME JOEL RIFKIN SHARED WITH his sister and widowed mother on Long Island is a horticulturist's delight. Lush beds of lavender, lamb's ears, lilies, begonias, irises and poppies surround the house. The box hedges are perfectly manicured. A magnolia tree thrives. The plants are a living testament to Joel Rifkin's gifts as a gardener. "Joel could tell you exactly what's growing," says Frank Barton, who lives across the street from the landscaper. "He knew how long it'll grow and when it'll die." But Joel Rifkin cultivated life and death in other, more odious ways...