World News and Prophecy: August 2001

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9 minutes
Any potential good that might have come from the recent summit of the world's economic giants was overshadowed by the death of two rioters among...
3 minutes
The European Commission's recent unanimous rejection of a proposed merger between two American companies threatens to widen the rift between Europe...
3 minutes
Christ said that the poor would always be with you. Now, 2,000 years later, that prophecy still haunts mankind.
2 minutes
The average age at which U.S. teens start drinking is 16-down from 18 in the 1960s.
7 minutes
A Newsweek report states that there has been more scholarship devoted to the study of end-time biblical prophecies in the past 30 years than there had...
12 minutes
Are you aware of the latest dance craze? Freak dancing is sweeping the western world, thanks to the promotion MTV has given it over the past several...
1 minute
Good news-poverty is down in the United States. But, a better average living standard doesn't translate into better living for all.
3 minutes
The International Olympic Committee bucked political correctness and gave the 2008 Olympics to a country that has been saddled with an appalling human...
2 minutes
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan recently gave his unusually gloomy testimony before the House Financial Services Committee concerning...
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A very large salmon being held by a fisherman.
11 minutes
So, how big was that fish?
6 minutes
The United States can no longer take its superiority in the economy of the western hemisphere for granted. The EU's economic reach grows ever longer...