What single factor could make the biggest difference in your prospects for a successful career?

A few years ago a Time-magazine poll revealed that 81 percent of Americans believe in a heaven where people live forever with God after they die. But do these beliefs square with the Bible?

Mankind's fundamental philosophy toward survival is driving the world toward disaster. Why do so many follow a way that is so destructive? What can—and should—you do to survive?

A Serious problem has spread from Britain to Europe and South America with potential worldwide effects. What lessons can we learn from this costly epidemic?

Shouldn't you look into your Bible to see if your beliefs and practices square with what Jesus Christ and the apostles practiced and taught?

Europe, home of so much Christian history and tradition, has in the last century grown increasingly agnostic and atheistic.

Europe's experience with Christianity—including the dark side of its abuses and excesses—tells an astonishing and even violent tale. If Bible prophecy is any indication, that story will again be dark and violent.

While most people on the Continent itself are either enthused about the prospect of further European integration or at least willing to let it happen, many in the United Kingdom are skeptical, even fearful, of further European unity.

"In 1990 there were two superpowers. Now there is only one. Could there soon be another?"

The rise and fall of empires isn't a dry subject only for academics and historians- especially when the next collapsing empire may be today's superpower, the United States.

According to a study conducted for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "sexual content on television has risen sharply since 1997, showing up in two of every three programs last season."

"... HIV infections are disturbingly common among gay men of all races in their 20s, especially considering that they grew up knowing how AIDS spreads," says an Associated Press report on the recent eighth annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago.

Prussia-a nation that was part of what is today eastern Germany-was dissolved by the Allies as a country shortly after World War II because it was viewed as a militaristic and reactionary power contributing to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Los Angeles Times health writer Julie Marquis tells us that "syphilis, a centuries-old human scourge, sustains itself these days on a noxious brew of poverty, racial inequality and hopelessness." Yet some people think the disease died with Al Capone.

Indonesia is a far-flung nation of 17,000 islands. It began as a modern state in 1949, emerging from the Dutch colonial regime. It has a long history of violence. The English expression "to run amok" comes from an Indonesian term...

According to an article in The Washington Times, "most Americans believe the Bible is more factual than newspapers, but find their daily newspaper easier to read."

The Scotsman recently observed that "Christianity is clinging on in Britain-but perhaps for not too much longer." What's behind this grim assessment?

According to Foreign Affairs magazine, several nations besides the United States possess biological weapons: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, China, North Korea, Russia, Israel, Taiwan and possibly Sudan, India, Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

"People who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that the cow will back up to them."