Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
An extra soda a day can add as much as 15 pounds of weight to person in a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
More than 100 million people worldwide log on every month to play interactive computer
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
About 38% of gaming consumers in the U.S. are female, according to the Entertainment Software
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Hispanics now comprise 14.5% of the U.S. population compared to blacks at
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine, University of California-San Francisco Women’s and Teen Girls’ Mood and Hormone Clinic, sets out to show the ways in which the female brain is different from the male brain. Though certainly not politically correct, she admits the female brain is a machine
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Boys Learn More From Men and girls learn more from women. Stanford University scholar Thomas Dee drew this conclusion from a national study of 8th graders. Today roughly 80% of U.S. public school teachers are women, the highest ratio in 40 years. The study found switching teachers can narrow gender
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
The Virtual Family Dinner, being developed by Accenture, will allow family members to chow down together regardless of where they live. It works like this: small, ceiling mounted cameras monitor Accenture’s Chicago test kitchen, tracking a test mom as she prepares a meal. When the system sees her
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Ethical Dilemma Prospective parents using in vitro fertilization have been using a procedure, known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (P.G.D), for more than a decade to screen for genes certain to cause childhood diseases that are severe and largely untreatable. A growing number of couples (some
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Millionaires The number of millionaires worldwide has nearly doubled since ‘96. It grew to 8.7 million in ’05. North America has 2.9 million millionaires, Europe 2.8 million, Asia 2.4
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Gospel Music Up According to Nielsen SoundScan, gospel music album sales had an 11.6% sales rise the first half of ’06, the genre’s first since ’02. As of 7/2/06, nearly 18 million gospel music albums, including those sold via digital download, have been sold YTD. The
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Tech Moms Among the hottest items for Mother’s Day ’06 were digital cameras, which increased 27% in unit sales in ‘06; portable music players, up 40%; and satellite navigation systems, shot up over 400%. Consumers spent more than $865 million in the week before Mother’s Day, up 9% from ‘05’s $791
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81% of Americans say the nation’s moral values are getting worse, according to a 5/06 Gallup
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Americans are #1 in national pride, according to a survey of 34 countries.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
The Gates Foundation has given Planned Parenthood Federation almost $12.5 million since
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
More than 100 million people worldwide log on every month to play interactive computer
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