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...probably best not to think about the flock of satellites that will help guide the great sailing ship being built in Mystic, Conn. Construct a 19th century boat according to 19th century plans, equip it with 5,200 sq. ft. of 19th century-style sails, and you'd like to think its crew will be steering by the stars, not by some 21st century machines flying high overhead...
...year-old global theological bureaucracy that isn't particularly prone to self-criticism or changes of direction. His millennial efforts to force the church to confront its failings - not only in respect to Jews, but also in relation to Muslims, Christians of other denominations and even sometimes its own flock - are the exception rather than the norm in papal history. But a specific apology for the actions of a predecessor currently in the process of beatification (Pius XII) may have been beyond his reach, given the complex and contested process by which the Vatican makes decisions. The absence...
...prepare for the hooligans sure to flock to the Euro 2000 soccer match, Brussles authorities are considering turning police garages into prison cells...
...they're essentially getting the "milk" for free. Even though final club members are cool at Harvard, they were dorks in high school just like the rest of us. Each clubhouse represents for them a guarantee of lifelong popularity. The humiliations of high school remain a memory, since girls flock to the only parties that definitely won't close at 12:45. Final club members live in fear that their precious edge on the competition will be dulled if they throw open parties...
...given direction. As long as the information moves the market, they may be willing to act on it. "Traders today are willingly complicit in the dissemination of false information," says John Coffee, an expert on Internet securities fraud at Columbia University Law School. "That's why they often flock to [the] chat rooms with the worst information, so they can find material that will destabilize the market one minute before they profitably pull out the next...