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Morale is high in Syria, no doubt about it, and so is a sense of unity and a feeling that the odds can be overcome. Damascenes do not seem to mind the inconveniences of the war: gasoline shortages, bread lines in the ancient covered suqs (markets), closed movie houses, irregular electric and telephone services, sporadic mail delivery and strict censorship. They hardly notice the camouflaged trucks of the Syrian army that continually rumble through the wide, European-like boulevards or the large numbers of their steel-helmeted soldiers carrying AK-47 automatic rifles along narrow, thousand-year-old alleyways. Some...
...American shoemakers, poromerics offer production efficiencies that could be critical in the industry's losing battle with cheap imports. Since artificial leather is made in uniform rolls, it can be cut with less waste than irregular hides. Shoes made from poromerics are priced up to 20% cheaper than comparable leather shoes...
...festival's center, filled for ten days with a bizarre collection of European filmmakers, promoters, and journalists, was the Campo S. Marguerita, one of the friendly public spaces that suddenly open out of the city's alley-like streets into irregular areas of pavement edged with small cafes and trattoria, centered with a carved stone well-head that once furnished the neighborhood with water, and filled, in between, with the sleek, lurking cats that for some reason resemble fish, with kids kicking a soccer ball of the walls or, early in the day, with vegetable stands...
...result of stringent national security measures drawn up after last spring's bombing of the Old Bailey. Scotland Yard has advised people to smell envelopes for almond and marzipan odors characteristic of explosives, check for grease marks caused by sweating explosives, and look for unusual or irregular handwriting on packages. Stories on how to handle suspect mail have appeared in almost every British newspaper, and commuters disembarking at tube stops, train stations and bus stops have been deluged with warnings not to open suspicious packages. Most Britons took the campaign of terror in their stride...
...slight softening in Rome's attitude. A recent letter to the world's bishops promises that the Vatican will soon amend a canon law that forbids Catholic funeral services -or even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often included Catholics in "irregular" marriages. The new law will allow religious funerals for those who, "although finding themselves in a manifest situation of sin, have retained their attachment to the church and have shown some sign of penitence." Pastors must avoid "public scandal," however, and can do so by explaining the "meaning of Christian funerals...