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Match.com wants to match its members up with Facebook users

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks to press and advertising partners at a Facebook announcement in New York in this November 6, 2007 file photo. The online hangout is mining friends' buying habits, -all so advertisers can reach those most likely to buy with pitches most relevant to them, even as doing so means amassing more data on you.
December 17, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide. Dating Web site Match.com, owned by media mogul Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp conglomerate, plans to launch two new features this week that bring...

Delta Offers Air Etiquette Tips

A pilot in a Delta Airlines jet sits in the cockpit in Seattle in this June 2, 2005 file photo. The airline introduced a humorous set of videos coaching passengers on plane etiquette.
December 13, 2007

ATLANTA (AP) -- Volumes have been written about how to properly behave at weddings or which fork to use at fancy dinners. But when it comes to dealing with the neighboring passenger who hogs precious airline arm space or the unruly kid who won't pipe down on crowded flights, there's precious little...

More tourists to visit Bethlehem for Christmas since uprising began 7 years ago

Palestinian men talk as they sit on a bench in Manger Square, near the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007.
December 12, 2007

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) -- There's a reason for Christmas cheer in biblical Bethlehem this year -- more tourists are on their way now than in any holiday season since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out seven years ago, the town's mayor said Tuesday. Relative calm between Israelis and Palestinians...

Monthly fasting may help protect against heart diseases

The sun sets behind the Mormon Temple, the centerpiece of Temple Square in Salt Lake City. The Latter Day Saints promote monthly fasting and are not alone in their encouragement of this spiritual discipline. Biola professors also promote fasting in Bible classes such as "Biblical Interpretation and Spiritual Formation," a required class for all Biola students.
Discipline shows health benefits for Mormons
December 12, 2007

Mormons have less heart disease _ something doctors have long chalked up to their religion's ban on smoking. New research suggests that another of their ''clean living'' habits also may be helping their hearts: fasting for one day each month. A study in Utah, where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day...

Colorado church gunman may have warned of second attack

An unidentified officer stands by his cruiser while blocking the roadway into the New Life Church on Dec. 10. Two women died from a shooting at the church, which was one of two church shootings in Colorado on Sunday.
December 11, 2007

DENVER (AP) -- In between his two deadly shooting sprees, church gunman Matthew Murray apparently posted furious threats on the Internet to kill Christians. But whether the warnings reached police before he struck again was unclear. The warnings -- and other anguished, despair-filled messages over...

ONECampaign spends $1.8 million on TV ads

December 11, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Members of the bipartisan ONEcampaign are encouraging people to ask the presidential candidates what they would do about the world's poorest people in $1.8 million worth of television ads to be shown in the weeks before the nation's first presidential contests. Organizers discussed...

With finals in view, Biolans chill out at ice skating night

At an Elf-themed AS Skating Night on Friday, Dec. 7, students enjoyed time on the ice.
December 9, 2007

Biolans hit the ice Friday night, Dec. 7, as A.S.'s Social Board put on an Elf-themed night of ice skating at Norwalk Ice Arena. Social Board staff estimated over 200 people attended the event, several of whom dressed to the theme, wearing elf costumes or hats that looked like animals from the movie...

2 dead in separate Colorado church shootings

Law enforcement officials swarm New Life Church on Sunday, Dec. 9 in Colorado Springs, after four people wer shot while services were letting out.
December 9, 2007

ARVADA, Colo. - A gunman killed two staff members at a missionary training center early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, and about 12 hours later four people were shot at a busy megachurch in Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs police Lt. Fletcher Howard said a suspect had been...

President Bush declares federal disaster for 11 Washington, Oregon counties hit by flooding

A slide over Hwy. 6 in Lewis County Wash., still blocks the road on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007. Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has requested federal disaster declaration for the two Washington counties that were hit by hardest by storms and flooding earlier in the week.
Flooding cause of 8 deaths
December 8, 2007

Federal dollars will be headed to the flood-ravaged Pacific Northwest. President Bush has declared a federal disaster for 11 counties in the region. The declaration allows aid to flow into Oregon and Washington as the area recovers from last weekend's storms. The federal government will reimburse...

Colloquium explores Biola’s past

Biola Centennial History Colloquium speakers Professor Fred Sanders and Professor Paul W. Rood answer questions during Wednesday’s discussion session.
December 8, 2007

History, science, Darwinian Evolution Theory and Lyman Stewart were all topics of discussion on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at the Biola History Colloquium. Biola’s School of Arts and Sciences in association with Centennial Celebrations sponsored the Colloquium as a means of celebrating 100 years of Biola’s...

Evangelicals pull Huckabee into presidential race

Republican Presidential hopeful, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, is interviewed by the Associated Press after a lunch with journalists in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007.
Former baptist minister moves to second place in GOP
December 7, 2007

Mike Huckabee has vaulted from nowhere into second place in the Republican presidential race, riding a burst of support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives, a nationwide poll showed Friday. The surge by the former Arkansas governor has come largely at the expense of Fred Thompson, according...

Biola cheese society hosts gourmet cheese gala

Approximately 80 students enjoyed a cheesy meal in the Café Banquet room during the semi-annual Cheese Gala last Wednesday night. Students dressed in their finest attire for the evening.
December 6, 2007

With the main attraction of the night being cheese, the Biola Honorable Cheese Society hosted the university’s first semi-annual Cheese Gala last Wednesday, Nov. 28. Tickets for the gala were sold out, and around 80 guests attended the event. The doors of the Café Banquet room opened at 6 p.m.,...