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...also the fastest-growing segment of the bedding market, accounting for 21% of all mattress sales. Last year 4 million water beds were sold (price: $100 to $600), nearly three-quarters of them to buyers over age 30. About one-fourth of purchasers now cite health reasons for choosing a water bed. The most common complaints are back pain, arthritis and insomnia...
Pentecostals can cite Scripture to support miraculous claims. Three raisings of the dead are reported in the Old Testament; the New Testament tells of three raisings by Jesus and one each by Peter and Paul. (The "resurrection" of Jesus is distinguished from the "raising" of persons who eventually died again.) Nonetheless, Pentecostal Scholar Russell Spittler of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., protests that "miracles are better left to speak for themselves -- Oral is the last person who should mention...
That idea naturally occurred to a number of New Yorkers, particularly blacks, who can cite several recent cases of whites going unpunished for the deaths of blacks. "It was a terrible and grave miscarriage of justice," said Benjamin L. Hooks, the executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., which is considering a federal suit on the ground that the four youths' civil rights were violated...
...cite ethical lapses in officials in government, finance, religion and the military. You point a finger at businessmen, educators, physicians, lawyers and almost every other segment of our society except publishers and editors. If you spent time researching your own profession, you would surely find an equivalent or even larger portion of it involved in the same activities you condemn in other fields...
People are not becoming more evil but more perfect. The events and behavior you cite as evidence of questionable ethics simply reflect our increased awareness of evil through the technology of instant global communications. Any public lapse of morals is now known instantly and responded to with outrage and a demand for perfection. To me, this represents an improvement in our situation...