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SARAJEVO: On a trip meant to deliver spiritual renewal, Pope John Paul II's weekend mission to Sarajevo is operating under a cloud. Recent explosions have already damaged five Catholic churches and a Franciscan monastery, sending tremors throughout the city's Catholic community of 30,000. As death threats are issued against John Paul, workers have welded shut manholes in the city and residents are under orders not to open their windows during the Pope's 25-hour visit. The greatest tension centers around Snipers Alley, a long stretch of road known for its wartime shootouts that the Pope will...
...attack jet broke formation and disappeared over the Colorado mountains last week, loaded with 450-pound bombs, speculation has had it that the 32- year old pilot might have stolen the plane. New reports from skiers near New York mountain in the Rockies that they saw a black cloud and heard a loud noise are fueling rumors that the plane crashed there. The Air Force theory that the plane went off-course because Button put the plane on autopilot doesn't hold up, critics say, citing evidence showing the jet changed course near the last point it was sighted...
...late 1990s--among Southern Baptists, and African-American denominations as a whole. But most late-20th century American Christians, observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, have a better grasp of heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place, or a silly myth, or something people invent in order to make themselves feel better, or all of the above." Had Russell spoken these words a decade ago, it would surely...
...gases mixed in, plus a lot of sooty dust. Billions upon billions of comets orbit lazily out beyond Neptune--most of which we'll never even see. When one happens to fall in toward the sun, though, the ice begins to vaporize, surrounding the solid core with a hazy cloud of dusty...
...This cloud, which can grow to thousands of miles across, is the comet's head, the light-reflecting shroud that turns an otherwise insignificant iceberg into a brilliant object. Just how brilliant depends on many factors. The solid comet's size is one, and Hale-Bopp, an estimated 20 miles across, is bigger than most. (Halley's was less than half as large.) Its history is another. Out in deep space, a comet can get encrusted with a layer of gummy dust. This layer can seal in most of the ice and prevent it from vaporizing. Some gas may spurt...