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...basic Morton's, specialty salt comes in a mystifying array of colors, grinds and shapes. To help buyers choose the perfect one, some stores, like Williams-Sonoma and Whole Foods, offer tasting bars that allow you to try out different varieties. If you still can't decide, the online gift company Red Envelope sells a 24-jar sampler of salts whose origins range from Italy to India...
...angst-ridden adolescent Meg Murry and her brother on a quest through time and space to rescue their imprisoned father on a planet governed by the sinister Dark Thing. With its mythic struggles, biblical and literary references and themes of good and evil--Dad is saved with the one gift Dark Thing lacks, the power of love--Wrinkle was seen by some as anti-Christian and was often banned. (The spiritual author called it "great publicity.") Wrinkle, which won the 1963 Newbery Medal, has sold more than 8 million copies. L'Engle...
TRIBUTE The Pope sent a eulogy referring to the tenor's "divine gift of music"; 10 air-force planes flew overhead, trailing green, white and red smoke; in the two days before the funeral, 100,000 visited the open casket...
...truth might entail intolerance," but insisted that the Catholic Church espouses not a threatening truth, but one that he says "proves itself in love. It is never our property, never our product, just as love can never be produced, but only received and handed on as a gift...
...Iran and Venezuela expect to get in return for their investment in Nicaragua. Next November, delegations from both countries plans to meet in Managua to discuss the seaport. "Nicaragua must give a 'quid pro quo' ... because the other two partners have not talked about [the seaport development being a] gift," says Roger Guevara, a Managua-based lawyer and former Nicaraguan ambassador to Venezuela, in an e-mail to TIME. "Certainly the Nicaraguan Government has to study what... they can offer," he says. "This includes a possibility of more than political and diplomatic support in the international forums...