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...Maclellan Foundation, a major Christian funder based in Chattanooga, Tenn., is backing a three-year project to track Colorado house churching. The Southern Baptist Convention, with more standard-church pew sitters than any other Protestant group, has commissioned its own poll and experimented in planting hundreds of its own house churches. Allan Karr, a professor at the Rocky Mountain campus of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary who is involved in the poll, guesses that three out of 10 churches founded today are simple and that their individual odds for survival are better than those of the other seven. House churches...
...Sources: Pew Research Center (2); AP; NBC; National Association of Realtors (2); Washington State Patrol; USDA
...experts quoted by world news organizations who are male, according to a study of gender bias in the media 19% Percentage of women in the news who are portrayed as victims, more than double the rate for men With bureau reports. Numbers sources: Deloitte Football Money League (2); Reuters; Pew Research Center (2); A.P.; World Association for Christian Communication...
...John G. Palfrey, Jr., who is co-directing the project. “Based on what we hear, we’re going to design programs to combat the problem.” Almost sixty million American adults have spyware on their computers, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. For Palfrey, the problem is more than a nuisance; he said badware raises issues of corporate responsibility and trust. Many companies that put on legitimate faces to the public are, in fact, bundling badware with their services because they know they can get away with...
...capital Ankara. Turkey and the U.S. are traditional allies, but relations have been tricky since the onset of the Iraq war, when Turkish M.P.s refused to allow U.S. troops to use Turkey to launch their invasion. Anti-American sentiment has been on the rise since then. A 2005 Pew Research Center survey found that just 23% of Turks had a favorable image of the US, down from 52% in 2000. Valley of the Wolves Iraq opens with a real-life incident. In July 2003, 11 Turkish commandos were detained by U.S. troops in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. Pictures showing...