The James Logan Courier

The Seattle Times (MCT)

With the New Year upon us, our thoughts turn to bubbles and the year that was.

To many observers, 2007 was a cork-popper on par with the last tech bubble, which had its influential and enduring byproducts — Google, foremost among them — and many more flashes that quickly faded. Kozmo.com ring a bell?

So, what of 2007 will have a lasting impact and what will drift quietly into obscurity?

By Etan Horowitz
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)

ORLANDO, Fla. — On Christmas morning, Lisa Addy's Orlando house resembles an assembly line. Her 5-year-old daughter unwraps a present, then hands it to Addy or her husband to open, a task that increasingly involves tools more suited for an electrician than a child.

"The worst I have found is the Barbies or any doll packaging," said Addy, 39. "Because they sew the hair to the box. You have to cut out the plastic things, so you get your wire cutters. And they have a wire wrapped around each wrist and ankle and sometimes around the body of the doll. I don't understand what the point is."

From wikipedia:
Evangeline Cory Booth (December 25, 1865 – July 17, 1950) was the 4th General of The Salvation Army (1934-1939).

She was born in South Hackney, London, England, the seventh of eight children born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, who had earlier in the year founded The Christian Mission, which became The Salvation Army in 1878.

In 1887, at 21 years of age, she became the officer of the corps in Marylebone. She was appointed as Field Commissioner throughout Great Britain in 1888. She served that post until 1891, when her father appointed her to train cadets in London.

Read The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill, free from Project Gutenberg.