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...Also hitting the market are organic LEDs, or OLEDs, which are sure to render CRTs and LCDs obsolete once engineers overcome limits to size and longevity. They’re thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs and have a greater range of colors, including true black. The New York Times said Sony’s XEL-1 was like “looking out a window. With the glass missing.” OLEDs have much superior viewing angles, so that, unlike the typical laptop LCD screen, they won’t go dark when you turn your head...
...Peter Anderson, the school's director, has made the same observation. The townhouses on the blocks alongside the school sell for up to $3.5 million, but he knows the children in those homes won't be coming to his school, where 96 percent of the students are black, and more than 70 percent qualify for reduced or free lunch programs. According to Anderson, some of the students live in homeless shelters, and about half are raised in the projects, mostly by single parents...
...want to stay within the UCC denomination, the best bet might be this historic black church, says Ron Stief, the former director of the UCC's Washington office and director of organizing strategy at Faith in Public Life. People's is located in Petworth - a mixed-race, less-affluent neighborhood in northwest D.C. - and Stief says it's very oriented to social justice: "They have a lot of international missions, sending members to Africa to do HIV work, for instance." Though there is another black UCC church in town, Stief warns that its pastor might be too "far left...
...find a thoughtful, measured, evenhanded big church. I suspect a place like Metropolitan would fit that description," says Cromartie. The church is not far from the White House and calls itself "the cathedral of African Methodism." As you would expect with an A.M.E. church, the congregation is almost entirely black. But more important, Cromartie says, it satisfies the goal of "just finding a noncontroversial, nondescript congregation and pastor...
...interested in branching out to an Episcopal church, Diana Butler Bass, author of five books on American Protestantism and an adjunct professor at Virginia Theological Seminary, invites you to try hers. "Epiphany is a downtown Episcopal church with a congregation that is fifty-fifty white and black," she says, "and it has a full spectrum of social class diversity as well as a long history in Washington." Indeed, several members of Lincoln's Cabinet belonged to Epiphany, and it was also very active in supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960s. "It would be an interesting choice that appears...