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Read moreChildren fighting
The survey also found:
* 93% of people would help if someone had collapsed in the street
* 61% would try to intervene if they saw two children fighting
* 32% said they would get involved if they saw teenagers spraying graffiti
* 24% would say something if someone was talking too loudly on a mobile phone while on a bus or train
The survey also compared attitudes between generations.
Read moreThese include "dramatic" tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt.
Read moreGiven what is at stake, I must say the traditionalist side has me worried. Part of the problem is that some traditionalists are so consumed with "end times" theorizing, they've virtually given up on politics. The sentiment is that "it is only going to get worse - so why bother."
Of course, that doesn't stop them from investing into their retirement funds.
Read moreOnly 16% of those polled called themselves atheists; 28% believed in God; 26% believed in "something" but were not sure what; and 9% regarded themselves as agnostics - like Humphrys himself, who had a religious upbringing in Wales but calls himself a "doubter".
Read more"This is a twist on an age old question - does a belief in God influence moral behaviour"" says Shariff. "We asked, does the concept of god influence cooperative behaviour" Previous attempts to answer this question have been driven by speculation and anecdote."
Read moreDistrict spokeswoman Robin Adair, Supt. Raymond Blanch and Board President Jes Raintree did not return phone messages, according to the local newspaper, the Gazette. But the paper reported Adair said in an e-mail the district had reviewed the situation.
"We are confident that all actions taken by school officials were constitutionally appropriate. As a result, we intend to vigorously defend the claims," the e-mail said.
Read moreIRD President James Tonkowich commented,
"Edgar's view of the church's role in society usually involved a more expansive federal government. While some hailed him as a prophetic voice on issues of war, poverty and environment, what he advocated exclusively pointed to liberal politics and human institutions as the answer.
Read moreThe WCC wants to create "what they call a Christian code of conduct on religious conversion."
THE REVEREND DR. HANS UCKO, who sounds like a Swede, told Roberts that such a "code of conduct" for Christian missionaries would "dissociate ourselves from anything that targeted children" or other "vulnerable" people. Under the proposed code, evangelizers could not offer rides, money, or promises of higher education.
Read moreAmong various groups - including conservatives and liberals and blacks and whites - the latest Barna survey found that the most radical differences of opinion on what needs to change in America were between evangelicals and those who are not born-again Christians.
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