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...past decade is people who say they don't subscribe to any religious identification. Most of this group aren't Atheists, say scholars like Claude Fischer at the University of California, Berkeley. They still believe in basics like God, heaven and the bible as an inspired text, but prefer to think of themselves as spiritual rather than anything more specific...
...Paul could cite Greek poets to the Greeks, then today's proselytizers will bring the church to moviegoers and, they hope, vice versa."Today, with DVDs and the VCR, all of us can engage a movie text," Johnston says. "When a person in a worship congregation refers to The Shawshank Redemption, either people have seen it or they can rent it." In addition, 3,000-screen bookings and saturation marketing guarantee that a film that opens Friday will have been seen or at least talked about by Sunday morning...
...like Smoke on the Water and the Finnish national anthem. An industry was born, and last year about 2.6 billion ring tones - those musical ditties that sound off when a mobile phone receives a call - were downloaded worldwide, one-third of them in Japan. Delivered by the Internet or text message, they account for 80-95% of a "phone personalization" market that was worth $3.2 billion last year and will reach $6.5 billion in 2008, according to London market-research firm Ovum. That makes ring tones a bigger business than CD singles, which last year racked up $1.4 billion...
...West Coast, however, my cell phone became more useful as an alarm clock than a telecommunication device. It would not pick up a signal for days, but did occasionally storm back to life, buzzing and beeping, as it caught up with a barrage of missed calls and text messages. My contingency plan was fatally flawed—my phone card had expired (with all my credits!) months before I returned home...
...don’t read Arabic,” he explains with a tug at his ample moustache when asked if he’s seen the original text of the abstruse volume. “I want to some...