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| Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST Pumping life into mainline Protestantism |
| "When people talk about Protestantism, it's about evangelicalism and Pentecostalism," says Diana Butler Bass, a senior researcher at the Virginia Theological Seminary. "Most people think mainline Protestant churches are dead." Director of the Project on Congregations of Intentional Practice, a three-year study of 50 churches across the country that's scheduled to end in 2006, Bass set out to find whether the stereotype is true—or whether, as she puts it, there's "a new kind of mainline congregation developing in the United States that's moderate to liberal theologically, taking traditional Christian practices seriously, and is experiencing an unnoticed vitality." |
| Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST Apple allies with Intel |
| Goodbye, IBM. Hello, Intel. That was Apple CEO Steve Jobs's message as he stood before 3,800 Macintosh software developers Monday and announced plans to deliver Macintosh computers powered by Intel processors, beginning next year. By the end of 2007, all Macs will come with chips made by Intel, which has been polishing its relationship with Apple for years. Intel, of course, is the other half of the Windows PC duopoly with Microsoft. |
| Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:00:00 EST Changing of the czars |
| White House officials are buzzing about the appearance of the latest wunderkind at the White House's National Security Council, which already sports several talented young staffers in senior posts. Juan Carlos Zarate, who just turned 34 last month, starts as a deputy national security adviser this week, coordinating the actions of the nation's ever growing counterterrorism apparatus. (This is basically the same job that Richard Clarke, the fiery counterterrorism czar under Clinton and Bush, once held.) |
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| Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:37:02 GMT GM Plans to Cut 25,000 U.S. Jobs by 2008 (AP) |
| AP - General Motors Corp. plans to eliminate 25,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States by 2008 and close plants as part of a strategy to revive North American business at the world's largest automaker, its chairman said on Tuesday. |
| Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:11:33 GMT Five Bombings Kill 18, Wound 67 in Iraq (AP) |
| AP - Four apparently coordinated bombings in seven minutes Tuesday killed 18 people and wounded 39 in northern Iraq, while a car bomb in Baghdad injured 28, ending a relative lull in violence. |
| Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:48:21 GMT Overhaul of Pension-Funding Rules Sought (AP) |
| AP - Fearing that airlines and other struggling industries could present the country with its next S&L crisis, Congress and the White House are pushing an overhaul of pension-funding rules that has been overshadowed by Social Security. |
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| Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:33:58 EDT GM closing plants, cutting 25,000 jobs |
| General Motors is cutting 25,000 jobs and closing an unspecified number of plants over the next 3-1/2 years, CEO Rick Wagoner told shareholders. The world's largest automaker is struggling to stem huge losses. The 25,000 jobs represent about 17 percent of GM's U.S. work force. |
| Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:51:53 EDT U.S., Iraqi troops launch Tal Afar offensive |
| U.S. and Iraqi troops today launched an offensive against insurgents in the northwestern city of Tal Afar -- not far from the Syrian border. "Dozens of tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and Apache helicopters have moved in to a neighborhood in the town which is thought to be a stronghold of insurgents," said CNN's Jane Arraf, who is embedded with U.S. troops. One U.S. soldier and four insurgents have been killed, Arraf said. |
| Tue, 07 Jun 2005 08:57:49 EDT Bush to announce $674 million in aid for Africa |
| The Bush administration will announce plans to spend $674 million for "humanitarian emergencies" in Africa during a visit by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to a U.S. official. |
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