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...aisles are clean, the store is brightly lit and associates in red polo shirts provide friendly service to the customers, who flock there for the low prices and the wide range of products offered. Throughout the store the image of a kindly old man appears in posters and photographs. His slogans and philosophy have been internalized by all employees, and they can tell you the story of his great march forward from humble rural roots to become a great leader. And by the way, would you like us to skin that frog for you? Welcome to Wal-Mart in China...
...PAUL II John Paul, wrote TIME, has "the world's bully-est pulpit," and few of his predecessors over the past 2,000 years had spoken from it as often and forcefully as he. In the punishing travels he undertook despite deteriorating health, he cast his message wide. His flock and the world listened, not always liking what they heard. The Pope strictly applied church doctrine, noted TIME, "to trouble the living stream of modernity," to excoriate self-indulgent and often tawdry secularism. He took unpopular stands on such issues as abortion and the ordination of women. Nonetheless, his unyielding...
...World, the Holy See is a particularly fitting home for Caodaism, a kaleidoscopic faith that combines all the major world religions and counts Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin among its saints. Since its recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate the signing of the Third...
...dates for term papers approach, students will once again flock to the libraries and ponder pressing questions. Questions like: why is this guy looking in my backpack...
...results of the survey will remain a secret until tomorrow when they are displayed as part of the annual Physics Department Puppet Show, in which second-year grad students traditionally skewer the faculty. First-year grad students and undergrads in the department flock to the show to see professors subtly (and not so subtly) mocked for ineptness in the classroom, for overworking their poor second-years in their laboratories and for doing useless research...