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...population has held steady at 23%. Neither Jews nor Muslims top 4%. The category that has really jumped (from 8% to 14%) in the past decade is people who say they don't subscribe to any religious identification. Most of this group aren't Atheists, say scholars like Claude Fischer at the University of California, Berkeley. They still believe in basics like God, heaven and the bible as an inspired text, but prefer to think of themselves as spiritual rather than anything more specific...
PEOPLE: Shaq hits Miami; Bobby Fischer gets nabbed...
After an international hunt that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already.) Fischer has been a wanted man since 1992 when, in violation of a U.S. ban, he headed to Yugoslavia for a highly publicized rematch with his cold war--era rival Boris Spassky, whom Fischer had defeated 20 years earlier in Reykjavik to become the first American world chess champ. Fischer beat Spassky again in 1992 and won $3.3 million. Since then the eccentric grand master has been living secretly...
...Nazi past of his predecessor Kurt Waldheim. In contrast, Klestil spoke out against Austrian complicity in the Holocaust, paid the first visit by an Austrian President to Israel, and opposed the Austrian nationalist Freedom Party's participation in the government. Klestil, shown below, is succeeded by Heinz Fischer, who was elected in April...
...editor of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. "It's very central and the food is good," says Ursula von Langermann, head of the North American division at the German Foreign Ministry. "Whenever I have an international guest I take them here, and if Chancellor (Gerhard) Schr?der or Foreign Minister (Joschka) Fischer walk in, they're just floored...