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...Surely God is mad at America." RAY NAGIN, mayor of New Orleans, suggesting that last year's string of devastating hurricanes in the U.S. was an expression of divine anger over the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Nagin later apologized...
...Ming era at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Standaert points to passages circled in red?which the map's legend says are copied from the 1418 map?that contain words or terms not used at that time. Among them is the map's word for the Christian God and its description of what is now the South China Sea as "the Great Qing Sea," a term not in use until the Qing Dynasty in 1644. "It's always possible that someone will use language differently from his contemporaries," says Standaert, "but I find that there are so many questions...
...seems unfazed by such skepticism. Interviewed in his antique-filled Beijing office, he responds with a calm smile. "Just because we don't know what term was used for God, and have no evidence of a word having been used at a certain time, doesn't mean it wasn't used." He says "the Great Qing Sea" was the mapmaker's way of avoiding the taboo of appearing loyal to the previous dynasty. Liu has submitted a sample of the map for carbon dating, but has not yet received the results. Still, even if the bamboo paper's age checks...
...described by the nuns, limbo [the afterlife for infants who die before being baptized] was similar to life on earth but without sickness, death, unhappiness or failure. I was absolutely furious that I had been baptized and was therefore ineligible for limbo. Heaven, on the other hand, involved endless God worshipping and constant harp strumming. It struck me as terribly boring. The only thing heaven had going for it was that it was not so painful as purgatory or hell. JUDITH A. MERRILL Wethersfield, Conn...
...Church's decision to abandon limbo raises a crucial question: Did God change his mind, or was the Catholic Church wrong again? CHARLES H. HOWARTH Eagle, Idaho Secret Snooping...