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...Coming Catholic Church's Gibson uses a novel analogy to explain another attribute the Cardinals may seek. "Just as Bill Clinton was considered the first African-American President," he suggests, "John Paul could have been considered the first Third World Pope." With his wholehearted visits to Brazilian favelas and his efforts on behalf of debt forgiveness, says Gibson, the late Pontiff's evident Europeanness did not prevent him from becoming "a hero in the southern hemisphere...
...will and testament of faith, written in stages over his 26-year papacy. He asked that his personal notes be burned and that he be buried in the bare earth, not a tomb. There was nothing to bequeath, for there was little he owned. But there was much to explain and confess, including his doubts over whether it was God's will that he continue as Pope as his speech slurred and his bones bent; he hoped, in the last hard years, that God would "help me to recognize how long I must continue this service...
...another study published last week in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine attributes it at least in part to excessive television viewing. (Perhaps time spent in front of the tube is time spent not learning social skills.) But bullying existed long before TV, and while this may help explain the persistence of the problem, it doesn't do much more...
...memorial, and the house is privately owned. But his former flat in BERN, Switzerland, where he lived as a young man for nearly two years, is open to visitors. Einstein resided at Kramgasse 49 in 1905, during his annus mirabilis-the miraculous year in which he devised theories to explain Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity (E=mc2). The then 26-year-old described it as the time when "a storm broke loose in my mind." The museum features original furnishings and some turn-of-the-century physics-lab equipment, along with photos of Einstein and copies...
...meeting, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Chief Francis “Bud” Riley said he was glad the committee took on March as “lock-your-door” month. He said the results explain why forced entry is rare on campus: would-be criminals find it easier to find an unlocked door than breaking into a locked room...