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...year-old outdoorsman described by an Australian newspaper as "built like a rugby front-row forward"--to be energetic. Yet even St. Paul, the archetypal evangelist, might have wondered at John Paul's 1989, a fairly typical year, featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, Malawi, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Mauritius. His visits, especially to the Third World's farthest outposts, projected a sense of a true church universal. The Pope would arrive at each destination and kiss the airport tarmac. With his square jaw, actor's timing and facility with languages...
...premier destination for a university education and career. Florida has adapted for countries his (controversial) way of ranking cities. On the Global Creativity Index--which assumes that creative talent, technology and tolerance lead to economic growth--the U.S. ranks fourth, behind Sweden, Japan and Finland. And to Florida's way of thinking, without changes, even that won't last. --By Barbara Kiviat
Just after the New Year, the World Junior Championships were decided in Helsinki, Finland, and for the first time in its history, Team USA (for which Reese was selected, but for which he was too injured to skate) captured the gold...
...from the tragedy. The Free Aceh Movement, known as GAM, offered to drop its demand for independence. "There's not a single member of the GAM negotiating team who hasn't lost family members in the tsunami," says Damien Kingsbury, an Australian academic who advised the rebel negotiators in Finland. "There's a very deep sense of loss and the suffering of the Acehnese people that are influencing their thinking...
...Crimson played both games without freshman Sarah Vaillancourt, who represented her native country in Duisberg, Germany playing for Hockey Canada U-22 at the Air Canada Cup. Vaillancourt and Canada faced teams from Finland, Germany, and Switzerland in the tournament...