Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 14, 2007
No TV For Tots The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children under the age of 2 watch no TV. That means no Baby Bach. No Smart Baby. No Baby Genius. A recent report concludes, there’s no evidence these products make babies smarter, but there is reason to believe that,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 16, 2007
Gaming Growth DFC Intelligence expects worldwide online gaming subscription revenue to reach nearly $7 billion by 2011, more than tripling in the next 5 years. Business Week reports more than 50% of ’05 subscription revenue came
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 18, 2007
Gaming Growth DFC Intelligence expects worldwide online gaming subscription revenue to reach nearly $7 billion by 2011, more than tripling in the next 5 years. Business Week reports more than 50% of ’05 subscription revenue came
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
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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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
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No Marriage—No Divorce: Couples who once might have wed and then divorced now are not marrying at all, reports The State of our Unions 2005, an annual report issued by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. The U.S. divorce rate is 17.7 per 1,000 married women, down from 22.6 in ‘80.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001
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HOOKING UP, HANGING OUT
Scholars from the Institute for American Values conducted a
survey, "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Looking for Mr. Right,"
that asked 1,000 college women about courtship in the new
millennium. The survey found that courtship—dating a male with
the hopes of
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Contributed by Mark Hensley on Aug 8, 2002
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Quecreek Miners Kept Each Other Alive
In what the news called "The Miracle at Quecreek," nine miners trapped for three days 240 feet underground in a water-filled mine shaft "decided early on they were either going to live or
die as a group."
The 55 degree (Fahrenheit) water threatened to kill
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Baptist
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 3, 2024
The Arms Race was on; we no longer feared atomic bombs, but the H-bomb. Bomb shelters would not protect against that greater level of destruction.
At one point, we were a button away from a nuclear holocaust. According to wikipedia.com, “Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov…. was a lieutenant colonel of
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Contributed by Paul Wallace on Mar 25, 2009
On Dateline NBC Friday December 26, 2008 ‘A Twist of Fate’
From Publishers Weekly
In a widely reported incident in 2006, Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak, students at an evangelical college in Indiana, and their families were victims of a ghastly mistake: the wrong girl was identified as the
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jan 12, 2007
A newspaper once ran an article on the superstar tenors Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti who were performing together in LA. A reporter tried to press the issue of competitiveness between the three men. Placido Domingo replied “You have to put all of your
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Baptist
Contributed by Troy Borst on Nov 12, 2002
National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats)
Only 39% of elderly Americans report that they are in good health
Over 33 million Americans have arthritis to the point it alters their daily lives
Nearly 150 million Americans suffer with some sort of disability dealing with the
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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