by Jodi Mathews | Dec 17, 2002 | News
Many Americans are anxious to simplify their holiday season, and the Center for a New American Dream has a wealth of information to help people focus on family, fun, good food and relaxation rather than just spending money. The center’s 2002 poll showed that 54...
by Jodi Mathews | Dec 17, 2002 | News
McDonald’s is making buying a Big Mac easier by allowing consumers to charge their fast-food meals. USNEWS.com reported that the move may be just what the fast-food giant needs to get “consumers to supersize their spending.” Gas stations, grocery...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 16, 2002 | News
Director Peter Jackson characterized Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien as “very much anti-control, anti-systems—which partly feeds into his themes about the environment.” The role of the Ents—and Treebeard, their leader—in the trilogy’s second...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 13, 2002 | News
“Tolkien knows that every few hundred years or so there comes a challenge to a generation where you can lose it all—your way of life, your civilization,” said Rhys-Davies. “And if you do not have unity, courage and a willingness to sacrifice...
by Robert Rhodes | Dec 13, 2002 | News
Plough Publishing House, for decades the public voice of the New York-based Bruderhof Communities, went on what has been termed a “hiatus” Nov. 14. The Bruderhof, which has 3,000 members living in 10 Christian intentional communities in the United States,...
by Jodi Mathews | Dec 12, 2002 | News
Bankruptcy judges have seen a 59 percent increase in caseloads in the past decade, and no new judges have been added to the federal bench since 1992, according to the Washington Post. “The number of bankruptcy filings in the federal courts in Fiscal Year 2002...
