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DIED. SISTER LUCIA DE JESUS DOS SANTOS, 97, the last survivor of three children who claimed in 1917 to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary near the Portuguese village of Fatima, which has become a pilgrimage site for millions annually; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. At age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th day of every month from May through October. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them...
...years, students have trooped to Louie’s to buy $20 30-racks of Busch Light and 10 dollar six-packs of Dos Equis. The prices were outrageous, but the conventional argument was that Louie’s incredibly convenient location was worth a premium. Cost-benefit analysis always gave Louie’s the one-up. Recently, however, Louie’s even more astronomical prices and the presence of other, more compelling choices for beverage-buying have made beer runs to Louie’s impossible to justify...
...That may not comfort Boeing, but it shows how the commercial-airplane business has links on both shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Wolfgang Schaack Wilhermsdorf, Germany The Peace of Prayer Your story on the new science of sleep [Jan. 24] left no room for God. You mentioned lots of dos and don'ts for getting a good night's sleep, but you never mentioned prayer. All cultures and religions recognize the powers of prayer and faith, especially in crisis situations. Prayer before bedtime can take away all fears of earthquakes, tsunamis and other dangers. Eric Nwabueze Anene Aguata, Nigeria...
...narrow space between the small dinner tables with the running-back grace of a Gale Sayers. He?s as tall as you?d expect (6ft.1) but much slimmer, in a dark, pin-striped suit, pink shirt, rose-colored tie. He announces his list of cabaret don?ts and dos: ?1. Don?t suck. 2. Do it as if you were entertaining in your living room.? Stokes? sucklessness ia a given; and the only format here is informality. It?s as if we?re in the shank of a swank dinner party, and one of the guests is persuaded to sing...
...Weight of Ademilton dos Santos, below, a baby boy born in S??o Paulo last week, a Brazilian record...