News tagged with congregations
Prevalence of religious congregations affects mortality rates
Jul 03, 2008 |
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LSU associate professor of sociology Troy C. Blanchard recently found that a community's religious environment – that is, the type of religious congregations within a locale – affects mortality rates, often in a positive ...
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Church effort sharply increases first-time African-American blood donors
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Louis Children's Hospital designed to increase awareness about sickle cell disease and the importance of blood donations within the African-American ...
Men doing field research on women are limited to certain subjects
Jun 26, 2008 |
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From the Petri dish in the controlled environment of a sterile laboratory to the faraway fields of another country, virtually anything can be the topic of scientific study. However, a University of Missouri religion professor ...
African-Americans lose weight in 12-week, church-based program
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Nearly half of overweight and obese African Americans who completed a 12-week, faith-based program lost 5 percent or more of their body weight and most kept it off for at least six months, researchers reported at the American ...
Computer scientist plans bach over broadband
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 19, 2007 |
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A singing computer scientist wants to use cutting-edge technology to create Europe's first successful Internet choir.
Internet believers: Pastors open online churches
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.
Discovery of American salamander in Korea tells 100 million-year-old tale
May 09, 2005 |
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Imagine discovering pandas in California or kangaroos in Argentina. For David Wake, one of the world's leading experts on amphibians and a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkele ...
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