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...mixing are 35 years old. The theme of time, foreshortened or elongated, is a defining feature of Eno's musical and visual adventures. But it takes a long lens, pointing back, to bring into focus the ways in which his influence has seeped into the mainstream. Born in Suffolk, England, in 1948, Eno graduated from art school in 1966 and by 1972, with no musical training, he found himself swept into the world of glam-rock fame as a member of Roxy Music. Back then it was the feather boas, leopard-skin jacket and makeup that caught...
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy health. A Princeton University study found that Americans who make the most money are no happier than those who make less, but a survey of 335,000 Americans published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the rich are healthier. Seniors ages 55 to 64 who live below the poverty line were six times as likely to have a long-term condition that severely limits their activity as wealthy Americans of the same age whose earnings were at least seven times as high as the poverty line. In another...
...opposition to abortion, euthanasia and women priests. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, also carries a big spiritual stick as the leader of the world's 70 million strong Anglican Church. But his rule is neither monarchical nor absolute, since he is appointed by the Queen (or King) of England, and considered "first among equals" of Anglican primates. This fundamental difference in authority was on full display this week in Rome, where an embattled Williams came to meet Benedict and mark 40 years of Anglican-Catholic dialogue...
...have in fact been moments when the tall and bearded Williams has been dwarfed by others in his own church, including Nigerian Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola, who has led the revolt of evangelical Anglicans - many from the third world - against the ordination of gays and women. Some Church of England observers believe the 56-year-old Welsh-born Archbishop will step down in 2008, well ahead of the decade-plus tenures of his recent predecessors...
...gays and women in the clergy. Williams, who was accompanied by his wife and two children, timed his trip to mark the 40th anniversary of a historic meeting between Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. On that first formal encounter between the heads of the two Churches since England's King Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century, the Pope gave Ramsey the ring that symbolizes his papal authority. Williams was wearing that same ring in his meeting with Benedict. And these days, he might wish he had his own symbol of absolute power to wield back...