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Whether people want more government or less, everyone wants an efficient government. Traditional thinking is that this requires a government to be run more like a business. But a government is not a business, and this approach merely replaces old problems with new ones. In their six-year, five-country study of 77 government organizations—ranging from small departments to entire states—Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder found that the predominant private-sector approaches to improvement don’t work well in the public sector.

Chloe Chadwick’s last remaining family member, her grandmother, dies in a car accident and leaves her a letter that changes everything Chloe thought she knew about herself. The letter directs her to Salus, an island off the coast of Connecticut that can’t be found on any map. When she arrives, she learns that she’s a part of a secret world living alongside humanity, one consisting of magic, shape-shifters, and elementals, where the Greek gods aren’t just believed in, they’re actually present. But within 24 hours of her arrival, a man is murdered, and Chloe is the suspect.

Personnel Incorporated bragged that they could supply a man for any job. Maxwell doubted this, needing a space pilot for the first Lunar trip. Now, if he had just asked for a lunatic....

It turns out that Pete has a talent for making people laugh. Some people tell jokes. Some people do silly tricks. Some people do funny voices. But not Pete. Pete makes people laugh with whoopie cushions. In fact, he likes it so much that he neglects to practice his clarinet like his Mom told him to. So, when Pete realizes that he has not practiced enough for his big concert performance, he finds himself in a bit of a tight spot!

Noted Philadelphia psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Jacobs has long felt trapped in a failed marriage. He’s procrastinated for years knowing a divorce would surprise most who consider Katherine the perfect wife; she’s joyful, loving, and caters to her husband’s every need. But Daniel knows her demeanor to be a façade, overcompensating for a trauma from which she’s never recovered, and he’s grown exhausted living with the pretense.

What do you do when it's raining cats and dogs...and pigs and whales? Take refuge in 15 stories of wild and wicked weather. They will freeze you to the core, they will soak you to the bone. You will find no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow, no sunshine after the rain. Just thunder and lightning that's very, very frightening. There's a storm coming....

They say in order to find yourself you have to go home. What if home was what you were running from? Where did that leave you? Always on the other side of the fence. Always looking in. Always wishing you were someone you couldn't be. Until one day you meet her. The one. She was my high, but she was also...My demise.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

The Power is a science fiction classic from the 1950s. After the book's initial publication, it was produced as a TV special starring Theodore Bikel and later as a George Pal film starring George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette. It is the tale of a mutant superman in hiding and the terrifying search to find him.

Chapman is completing his tour of duty at a Moon base. But he's asked to put off his return to Earth. Based on a story by Frank M. Robinson, this episode of X Minus One originally aired on December 19, 1956.

The discovery of a previously lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot has electrified the Christian community, portraying this despised man as someone who saw his role in the Passion of Christ as integral to a larger plan, and bringing new clarity to the old story. If Judas had not betrayed Jesus, Jesus...

Amid political and racial protests in a Los Angeles hospital, surgeon Dr. Marika Javid is brutally murdered. In the ensuing investigation, Detective Michael Tucci finds himself compromising his job and his life as he embroils himself in an affair with the victim’s associate, the beautiful and enigmatic Dr. Tara White - who could be the killer’s next target. Dishonor Thy Father is a multicultural thriller spanning three decades and two continents that explores contemporary issues of ethnicity, sexism, spirituality, and social mores.

Identifying a project, overcoming challenges, personal connections, outcomes, and special moments: hear from Gold Award Girl Scouts sharing their stories related to Girl Scout Gold Award projects.

Welcome to the Sensory Strides podcast. My observations of the world through activity, reading, listening, and everything else.

In Persuasive Apologetics, pastor and professor Jeffrey M. Robinson explores what's below the surface of intellectual-sounding objections to Christianity. He shows what it means to contend for the truth through real-life examples of communicating with those who hold differing beliefs.