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~ General Motors is going to unveil three new minicar concepts. Customers will be able to vote for the one they like the best. What a novel concept -- asking customers what they like. I'm all for doing whatever it takes to give these gas-sipping mini's a chance to take root in our bigger-is-better culture.

Pictured is the Chevy Trax. I think he's smiling at me.

~ The rest of the story -- Curt Peterson fills in some of the wild details about the experience he had with travel mate Roger Thorpe when they were caught in the crossfire during an uprising last week in Kinshasa, DRC. Incredible story.

~ American Universities are looking to establish satellite campuses in India. That's one way to deal with the Homeland Security barriers which are making it more difficult for foreign students to study in the US.

~ Dayspring Center for Christian Studies in Boulder, Colorado is morphing into Rivendell College. Perhaps their football team will be called the Fighting Rivendell Hobbits! They have an interesting faculty -- none of whom look too elfish.

~ PIBC will be offering seminary-level classes on the Guam campus, starting in the fall.

~ Air travel to double by 2025?

~ Senior adults have more than their share of gambling related problems.

~ Worth your attention: Scot McKnight's “mistakes missional gospel folks need to avoid.”