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...attention turns to the College of Cardinals, whose 117 voting members began to stream into Rome from 52 countries to pay their respects and write the next chapter of the church's history. Later this month they will meet in the Sistine Chapel, already swept for hidden microphones, to choose the next Pontiff. There will be plenty of intrigue in the days to come: "The battles to take care of everyone's own interests have been abounding," a Roman Curia Cardinal told TIME. But in the final days many were struck by the sudden transparency of the Vatican's thick...
...loved him for what he had in his mind, and he still had that," she says now. On New Year's Eve, just eight weeks after he became a triple amputee, Bozik left his hospital bed in a tuxedo and wheeled down to the flower- and family-filled hospital chapel to marry his Texan bride...
...heart of Houston's museum district. The Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum are on Bissonnet Street, adjacent to the rail. Also nearby: the Menil Collection--one of the country's most distinguished troves of 20th century art, in a serene, minimalist setting--and the Rothko Chapel, designed by artist Mark Rothko and home to 14 specially commissioned works in undulating shades of black, gray and violet...
...were bones buried beneath the building with a blue door? Why were they later mutilated? The rumor mill provided one explanation: ghosts! But is it true? Is Holden Chapel really haunted...
...chemical triumvirate of death and destruction? Not quite, according to Mandryk, who said the bones belonged not to victims but rather to cadavers used by medical students, who used to practice surgery in the chapel 40 years after it was built in 1744. The arsenic, she said, was probably used to prepare the cadavers “for teaching purposes...