Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
Our Favorite Brands: A recent Harris Poll reports the 10 favorite brands of American consumers are: 1-Sony, 2-Dell, 3-Coca-Cola, 4-Toyota, 5-Ford, 6-Honda, 7-Hewlett-Packard,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 19, 2007
The ’05 average income of the top 100 U.S. megachurches from all sources was $6
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Between 1984 and 1989, about $450 million was stolen in non-church based religion-related scams; by ’01 the total hit
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90% or more of adult Americans say they are good citizens, friendly and
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The number of pay phones in the U.S. has dropped from 1 million to 500,000 in the last 9
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About 13% of American men ages 30 to 55 are not working, up from 5% in the late
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1 in 3 Americans are using the Internet to get their news this year, compared to 1 in 50 in
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An extra soda a day can add as much as 15 pounds of weight to person in a
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More than 100 million people worldwide log on every month to play interactive computer
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About 38% of gaming consumers in the U.S. are female, according to the Entertainment Software
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Hispanics now comprise 14.5% of the U.S. population compared to blacks at
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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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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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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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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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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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