It requests people around the world unite and pray for one minute each day as part of a 24-hour solidarity vigil in the hope the power of God will change the troubled circumstances. An email is circulating the world wide web highlighting the plight of a 16-year-old girl who has witnessed friends and family die from starvation. Zimbabweans who live on the Sunshine Coast have no doubt the email is a true reflection of the crisis in the country. He left his 4500 acre family rose and tobacco...

Advertising and marketing is a factor in childhood obesity, in eating disorders, precocious irresponsible sexuality, youth violence, underage drinking, underaged tobacco use. But, as Strassel writes, a different "climate," the political one, appears to be keeping him largely out of the public eye, despite his best efforts to break through. Despite the fact that Chavez seized power and shut down his opposition in Venezuela, the media rarely portray him as a dictator, preferring kinder words...

News Sunday, May 20, 2007 New GOP chairman pledges strong leadership, common sense By John Lyon LITTLE ROCK - The new state Republican Party chief pledged Saturday to provide strong leadership and common sense in rebuilding the party into a political force following a Democratic sweep in statewide elections last fall. News Sunday, May 20, 2007 New GOP chairman pledges strong leadership, common sense By John Lyon LITTLE ROCK - The new state Republican Party chief pledged Saturday to provide...

She recalled teaching in a tobacco farming area and working with students who stayed out of school a week to work the fields. She noted that currently students are required to take the standardized test required for NCLB evaluation in English within one year after entering school in America. Educators have said many students from other countries do not have sufficient English skills to understand and take such a test successfully after a year. Hancock said Bush wants to put $1 billion into...

It was on them soon enough, a raging wildfire that churned through the tinderbox forests and dry swamp beds on a slow, steady march through two states. Two weeks ago, the fire was a mile from Marx's cinderblock house, and a man from the forestry service came calling one afternoon with a knock on the front door. While only a few homes have burned and the economic impact is something of a mystery -- some in Lake City think it a blessing, what with all the firefighters and reporters staying...