PEDESTRIAN CALMING Officials in charge of a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal heritage site recently installed “speed bumps,” similar to those familiar to Americans driving residential streets–but on a pedestrian walkway, with row upon row of risers to resemble a washboard. A Western travel writer, along with editors of People’s Daily China, suggested that officials were irked that … [Read more...] about NOTW: Pedestrian calming, dolphin sex research and guys who store their own urine
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NOTW: Guaranteed blessings, full-body transplants and BYU urine stunts
BLESSINGS, GUARANTEED More and more churches (“hundreds,” according to a June Christianity Today report) offer hesitant parishioners a “money-back guarantee” if they tithe 10 percent (or more) of their income for 90 days–but then feel that God blesses them insufficiently in return. The South Carolina megachurch NewSpring instituted such a program in the 1990s and claims that, … [Read more...] about NOTW: Guaranteed blessings, full-body transplants and BYU urine stunts