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...even if the Pope is released from the hospital in the coming days, concern over his health will inevitably multiply. No one denies that the Pope is mentally alert, and able to carry on meaningful discussions. Still the Parkinson's is progressing, not only adding a risk to any related breathing problems, but steadily stripping the Pope of his ability to preach to his followers. What were once 17-hour papal work days are now a fraction of that with the Pope confined to a wheelchair and in need of ever more rest. Talk of retirement that surfaced three years...
...Salaam in 1998 and in a 2002 attack on a Tunisian synagogue. Shortly after the document surfaced last summer, the Department of Homeland Security began contacting limousine firms to warn of the danger. With hundreds of limos expected to jam the capital this week, authorities are on the alert. --By Adam Zagorin
Howie Kapostash is an alert man with a nuanced awareness of things. He enjoys the increments of summer sunlight or the nice construction of a simple lunch box. He also spots the looks that pass between people when they notice his forehead. A Vietnam War injury has left him with a deep indentation in his skull and a messy plug of scar tissue. The wound has all but deprived him of the power of speech. Anytime he tries to talk, the best he can do is bark out one or two syllables. "I gave up explaining years ago," he says...
...deemed it immoral. Several California Science Center board members were initially "very uncomfortable" with the exhibit, admits president Jeffrey Rudolph. One controversial display--a partially dissected pregnant woman, whose heart, intestines and 8-month-old fetus are clearly visible--was placed behind a wall with notices posted nearby, to alert anyone who might be offended. Plenty apparently aren't: half a million people have seen the show in L.A., double the attendance of the museum's popular Titanic exhibit in 2003. "Body Worlds" will move to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry on Feb. 4. --By Jeffrey Ressner
...lapse" around the New Year's holiday, prompting a nationwide manhunt, kept secret until now. An unpublicized APB signed by a senior intelligence official in Karachi has been issued with three photographs--one showing the fugitive with a beard, another with a mustache and a third clean shaven. The alert, which identifies the escapee as Mushtaq Ahmad, a possible alias, was sent to air- and seaports as well as land borders in Pakistan, although security sources there believe he will probably try to slip across the border into Afghanistan...