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When Deborah Williams received the devastating diagnosis of Parkinson's disease last spring, she needed spiritual support. She also needed a haircut. She got both at Classic Body Image Salon & Day Spa, a Christian beauty parlor in Blacksburg, Va. When Williams told owner Cindy Griffin about her illness, Griffin, 35, and another hairdresser ushered her into a massage room where, Williams says, "we all just held hands and we cried and we prayed together...
...established and coming out of the religious closet, their numbers are exploding. Listings in the Shepherd's Guide, the nation's leading Christian business directory, have more than doubled in five years. Michael Zigarelli, dean of the School of Business at Regent University, a Christian school in Virginia Beach, Va., estimates that there are 500,000 to 600,000 "Christian owned and operated" businesses in the U.S. today--10% of all corporations...
...topic for bloggers for days afterward. "It sends a signal to other countries because they're rushing to gain scientific and technological leadership while we're getting distracted with a pseudoscience issue," warned Gerry Wheeler, executive director of the 55,000-member National Science Teachers Association in Arlington, Va. "If I were China, I'd be happy...
...substandard care against him to eliminate him as a competitor. Says Poliner: "It's unfathomable that a process that should be about healing could be used to attack doctors." Obstetrician John Raviotta, after reporting to state authorities dangerous obstetrics policies at the Community Memorial Health Center in South Hill, Va., lost privileges there as a result of a peer review that included doctors from the facility. "As contractors of that hospital, how can the doctors be objective?" he asks. The hospital said Raviotta "disrupted [its] efficient operation...