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Protestants are most likely to sample worship services outside their tradition - 3 in 10 say they have attended Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or other services at least occasionally in the past year. African-American Protestants lead this trend, with 42% visiting houses of worship in other traditions, including Catholic churches (19%), Jewish synagogues (8%) and Muslim mosques (5%). One-quarter of white evangelicals share that interest in other traditions. But they are also the most likely to stay close to home: more than half say they attend services only at their own church, not even visiting other churches in the same...
...based service—TheCultivate.com—is el Habashy’s most recent brainchild, the outgrowth of an idea that first came to her around May of last year. The service is meant to connect up-and-coming designers with trend-conscious wholesalers and buyers to bolster local fashion markets...
...goal of this sort of approach is to accelerate the way an economy naturally comes out of recession. Since there has been less demand for goods and services, firms hesitate to add workers. Instead, companies squeeze more productivity out of their current ones. This is a trend we've been seeing. Paying companies to hire would ostensibly push them into the next phase of recovery: adding more employees...
...this summer, North Korea has taken some steps to ease ongoing tensions with South Korea; Kim personally met with former U.S. President Bill Clinton when he traveled to Pyongyang in order to free two American journalists who had managed to get themselves arrested in North Korea. If the warming trend continues, Bosworth may come out of Pyongyang on Thursday with an agreement by Pyongyang to return to multilateral negotiations, although they may be called something other than the six-party talks...
...children would have significant difficulty covering the health costs of their aging parents. That intense financial pressure, he said, could raise the future suicide rate. The Education Minister, in a separate statement, predicted that one-third of Taiwan's colleges will close in just 12 years if the trend continues...