by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 9, 2002 | News
The Baptist Center for Ethics added a staff member and elected new officers at its annual board meeting on Sept. 30-Oct. 1. BCE’s board of directors hired Jan Turrentine as an associate director responsible for educational resources, specifically the development...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 8, 2002 | News
On April 13, 1970, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert were 200,000 miles from Earth. As the crew of Apollo 13, they were headed to the moon, intending to land in the Fra Mauro area. That objective suddenly changed when an oxygen tank in their service module...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 8, 2002 | News
President Bush used the word “weapons” several dozen times last night to make the case for possible military action against Iraq. His speech in Cincinnati came one year after Bush ordered the first military strikes in Afghanistan. The roughly 3,300-word...
by Jodi Mathews | Oct 7, 2002 | News
American youth, aged 12 to 20, saw more alcoholic beverage ads in 2001 than did people of legal drinking age, according to a recent study by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth. “Total youth exposure to beer and distilled spirits advertising in print in...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 4, 2002 | News
Cable channel FX has announced it will carry a new reality series in 2004 that will allow TV viewers to choose a “people’s candidate” for the American presidency. “More than four decades after the Nixon-Kennedy debates forever altered the...
by Jodi Mathews | Oct 4, 2002 | News
The 2001 U.S. Census Bureau report on income revealed that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. According to the annual report, there are 1.3 million more poor Americans, bringing the total for 2001 to 32.9 million. Last year, 11.7 percent of...
