Most employers wouldn’t ever consider trying to build up a staff member’s IQ — either it’s high or it’s not, a product of birth and schooling rather than workplace training. But many companies are now prepared to invest in their staff’s emotional intelligence and an industry is booming to cater for that multi-million dollar market. [...]
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New York officials released the latest design for the signature building at the World Trade Center site Wednesday after revising it to make the tower more secure. New York officials released the latest design for the signature building at the World Trade Center site Wednesday after revising it to make the tower more secure. Gov. [...]
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In a rare marketing ploy, the No. 2 U.S. movie theater chain, AMC Entertainment, is offering a money-back guarantee for boxing picture “Cinderella Man,” hoping to boost interest in the struggling film amid a record box-office slump. Advertisements offering on-the-spot refunds to AMC patrons unhappy with the film began running June 24 in newspapers and [...]
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Marking a milestone moment for American religion and world evangelicalism, the Rev. Billy Graham Sunday preached what could be his last revival sermon. Toying with the situation, Graham told thousands of people gathered in Queens that he hopes “to come back again someday,” and said he told journalists who asked if this is the end [...]
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Zondervan and William Morrow divisions of HarperCollins Publishers, acquired the rights to publish the memoirs of the Atlanta woman who made headlines when she saved her own life from a murder suspect by citing from “The Purpose-Driven Life” To be cowritten, Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero, is scheduled to be [...]
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Autopsy results show three boys found dead in a car trunk suffocated, and their deaths have been ruled accidental, Camden County Prosecutor Vincent Sarubbi said Saturday. Sarubbi said there were no signs of foul play in the deaths of 11-year-old Anibal Cruz, 6-year-old Daniel Agosto and 5-year-old Jesstin Pagan, which he called a “horrible, tragic [...]
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The Supreme Court ends its work Monday with the highest of drama: an anticipated retirement, a ruling on the constitutionality of government Ten Commandments displays and decisions in other major cases. Traditionally there is an air of suspense as the justices meet for the final time before breaking for three months. Justices usually wait until [...]
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The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses — even against their will — for private economic development. It was a decision fraught with huge implications for a country with many areas, particularly the rapidly growing urban and suburban areas, facing countervailing pressures of development and property ownership [...]
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Carrie Underwood’s single “Inside Your Heaven” sold 170,000 copies its first week, making it the best-selling song so far of 2005, according to her publicist. The single by Underwood, the newly crowned American Idol, debuted at No. 1 on four charts by Billboard magazine – the Billboard Hot 100, the Pop 100, singles sales and [...]
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A woman who pleaded no contest to embezzling at least $700,000 from her church, crippling a reconstruction effort and causing a retired pastor to lose his pension, was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison. Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny bypassed sentencing guidelines in handing down punishment for Janis Ferworn, former treasurer of [...]
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Elderly former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced on Thursday to 60 years in prison for the 1964 killing of three civil rights workers, the notorious crime that galvanized the civil rights movement and inspired the 1988 movie “Mississippi Burning.” Killen wore a yellow prison jumpsuit and showed no emotion as Circuit Judge [...]
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Southern Baptists have voted to end their boycott of the Walt Disney Co., a move that comes eight years after the group condemned as immoral and “gay-friendly” everything from the company’s same-sex employee benefits to the TV show “Ellen.” “We felt like it was time to end it,” said Gene Mims, [...]
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Yahoo Inc., the most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors. The giant Internet media company closed down those chat rooms and the ability to create new ones “in the past week,” said Yahoo spokeswoman Mary [...]
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Business on the floor of the House was halted for 45 minutes yesterday after Rep. John N. Hostettler (R-Ind.) accused Democrats of “denigrating and demonizing Christians,” prompting a furious protest from across the aisle. The House was debating a Democratic amendment to the annual defense appropriations bill that would have required the Air Force Academy [...]
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“I celebrate every day I wake up. It’s a blessing every day,” Ronald Winans told the Free Press in January. “I’m here and whatever God has allowed to happen to me is for a purpose to bring Him glory, and for that, I’m glad.” Gospel luminary Ronald Winans celebrated life every day. Even after receiving [...]
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Three burnished steel crosses, the largest 30 feet tall with a 13-foot flame insignia, soon will stand in front of Community United Methodist Church. Members of the Columbia Board of Adjustment voted last night, some grudgingly, to grant the church a variance to the city sign ordinance and allow the display. In December, city building [...]
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Youth representing 11 states aggressively thumbed through their Bibles and gave gripping speeches at the National Invitational Youth Bible Drill and Speakers Tournament (NIT) June 10 at First Baptist Church in Orlando. In the speakers tournament, Christina Kruse of Lifeway Fellowship in Killeen, Texas, won following an emotional delivery of her speech Called to Serve. [...]
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MasterCard International on Friday said a security breach of credit card payment data had exposed about 40 million cards of all brands to potential fraud in what one analyst said was the biggest privacy breach ever. About 13.9 million of those credit cards at risk are MasterCard-brandedcards, the company said. An unauthorized person infiltrated cardholderdata [...]
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Applications from high school students to each of the three prestigious U.S. military academies dropped this year, officials said on Monday, at the same time the Army is struggling to sign up new recruits. This drop in applications represented the latest sign that the all-volunteer military is having difficulty attracting people during an Iraq war [...]
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Pop star acquitted of all charges in molestation case SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) — A stoic Michael Jackson walked out of court acquitted by jurors who said they didn’t have enough evidence to convict him of molestation charges that could have sent him to prison for years. Jackson made no comment — and didn’t even [...]
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