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Amy Grant is releasing her first live recording in 25 years with Time Again…Amy Grant Live 9/26/06. Grant is also being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September; the first artist with roots in
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Pharmaceutical companies are reaping a windfall for drugs for low income people under the new Medicare Part D drug program. The law exempts Part D drugs from “best price” rebates drug makers have been required to give to the state Medicaid programs since ‘91. U.S.
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Ad Jacket A hot new trend in Japan where they are called Brajackets, are ads disguised as a dust jacket for a book. Made from high-quality, coated paper that makes designs and colors pop, they come with a built-in bookmark and are available Free, and no purchase necessary from
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Collegiate Online 43% of college students go online at least 10 hours a week, while 31% spend 6 to 10 hours a week online and 19% visit the Web for 3 to 5 hours a week, finds a recent Experience study. By contrast, just 17% watch TV more than 10 hours a week, and a mere 1% spend 10 hours a week
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Wives Want Soul Mates, romantic partners who are compatible together and bring out the best in each other. The relationship has satisfying intimacy and includes friendship, companionship, and often a spiritual component as well as love. This means they want a husband who will talk about his
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Evangelical Christianity Is Flourishing In Europe. France has witnessed an 8-fold increase in Evangelical Christians during the past 50 years, from roughly 50,000 to 400,000. Evangelicals represent less than 2% of the European population. Growth is particularly strong among immigrants from Africa,
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Consumers Spent more on online content in ’05 than ever before. The average annual spending per customer topped $100 for the first time, according to an Online Publishers Assoc. study. Categories with revenue growth: business/ investment, credit help, entertainment/lifestyle, greeting cards,
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The U.S. Teen Birth Rate has been declining; in ‘04 it was 41.2 births per 1,000 girls ages 15-19, vs. 61.8
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Wireless Music According to an IDC study, U.S. wireless music services will have over 50 million users and generate more than a billion dollars in ’10. By the end of ‘06, the number of U.S. OTA customers, those with the ability to download and install content over a wireless network, will be
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Christian Country There’s a new wave of faith-based, Nashville sounds. Whether it’s Carrie Underwood’s prayerful Jesus, Take the Wheel or Brooks & Dunn’s nostalgic Believe, country charts are sounding like Sunday morning. The reason, says David Fillingim, Shorter College religion and philosophy
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Starbucks will launch a national program this fall promoting a novel with point-of-sale and on in-store tables for at least a 6-8 weeks and expect to sell at least
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Gen Y (ages 18-26) averages 12.2 hours online each week, 28% more than their Gen-X (ages 27-40) counterparts finds a new Forrester Research study. Gen Y-ers also clearly dominate social networking sites, and are more likely to stream or download video and movies, use voice-over-Internet protocol,
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The Average Online Shopper is female, age 44, and has an annual household income of about $68,000 according to an eMarketer Inc. study. She has a college degree, is more inclined to use an advanced Internet connection, and spends more than $360 a year on various purchases.
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Prestige Poll The annual Harris Poll measuring public perceptions of professions and occupations show that firefighters, doctors and nurses are seen as prestigious occupations by U.S. adults, while business executives, stockbrokers and real estate agents are seen at the opposite end of the
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Donors Economics professor Tyler Cowen reports donors often tolerate high administrative costs, fail to monitor charities, and do not insist on measurable results—the opposite of how they treat financial investments. He also confirmed that while 1-for-1 matching funds increase donations,
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An ancient Psalm was recently discovered in an Irish bog. The book has been dated to the years 800-1000. A Trinity College manuscripts expert says it’s the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries. The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83,
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Game Boys In the USA, over 70% of males in the 18 to 34 demographic play video games, according to NPD Group. Young men play 12.5 hours of video games a week, while they watch television 9.8 hours, and 75% of households with a male member age 8
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Abstinence Up U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials, Wade Horn and Jeffrey Trimbath, publicly defend abstinence education programs. They claim the goal of such programs is to delay teens’ introduction to sexual activity, noting reliable statistics indicate that’s exactly what it
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Disney is returning to family-fare movies, reports Oren Aviv, the new President of Production at Walt Disney Pictures. The company is cutting 650 employees and phasing out its R-rated movies. Aviv says he will see to it that what the company
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