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Christian Science Monitor
A last crusade in a career that reshaped American religion
"Finally, the Big One," blared a headline in 1957, when a dashing young evangelist named Billy Graham was poised to launch his first crusade in the largest and, by reputation, most wicked city in the nation. "Save New York!"

CardSystems Installs Security Fix
Credit-card processing company CardSystems Solutions applies security fixes to its computer network after a hacking attack that exposed data for 40 million credit-card and debit-card accounts to intruders.

NY Times
To Catch a Thief
In an age when credit and other account information seems to easily fall into the hands of thieves, merchants are fighting back against credit card fraud.

Creation science
by David Warren

What's a "Simulated" Baseball Game?
Fantasy baseball, for real.
By Daniel Engber

Is Elizabeth a dancing queen?
Everyone wants to know what QEII has on her brand-new iPod.

Male-targeted ads found to be in no man's land
a new study found that half the men in most parts of the world don't know what is expected of them in society and three-quarters of them think images of men in advertising are out of touch with reality.

Meet the Press will host Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the war in Iraq and an exclusive interview with Bono, a lead voice for African aid, as well as the rock group U2. The lead singer of U2, who is also a leading voice fighting poverty in Africa. Bono — the co-founder of DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) — will make his first appearance on "Meet the Press" to discuss the global fight against poverty and the July 2 "Live 8" series of concerts — which seek to encourage the G8 nations to provide the world's poorest nations with complete debt cancellation, increased aid and more trade. Check your local listings for the exact airtime in your neck of the woods.

An Optimist Abroad
U2's Dance With Duende