Front Page WSJ (1 cent)

Yesterday.

1.

"When he was 22 years old, Loren Davis bought 75 chairs from a funeral home and opened his own fundamentalist church next to a Hells Angels bar on the Houston docks. Someone shot out a window once, he says, but nobody ever came in to hear him preach.

"Every Sunday for three months, Mr. Davis stood before the empty seats and preached the Gospel as if he were Billy Graham in a packed stadium. Finally, he recalls, his mother showed up and, after listening to her son's solo sermon, suggested he find another career."

It turns out that Davis is now an evangelizing success in Africa, where there are currently 95,800 "long-term" missionaries preaching.

With 95,800 Christians with Bibles, and even more Moslems with scimitars, what's a poor African to do?

2.

Italy (surprisingly) might be the cleanest country, and household product advertisements fail there is they promise time-saving efficiency or ease of use. 80% of Italians iron all of their laundry and only 2% use cleaning wipes.

3.

Air Canada has realized that you can't make money off flying airplanes, so they are turning their main task into a loss leader and concentrating on all the side tasks that most airlines fan out.

Having flown Air Canada.........

4.

Ken Lay says that it was the media and underlings who brought down Enron.

Sort of like saying, "yes, I helped push him off the cliff, but it was the gravity that caused him to fall."