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...twelve-day journey took John Paul to Togo, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Zaïre, Kenya and, this week, to a final stop in Muslim Morocco. As in two previous African journeys, in 1980 and 1982, the turnouts were exuberant, totaling more than 1 million in Zaïre alone. Says Cameroon's President Paul Biya, himself a Roman Catholic: "The Pope loves Africa, and Africa loves the Pope...
...years during which China fell asleep, it is once more taking its rightful place among the great powers. But most casual observers outside China don't understand that even as the nation gains respect, its people are haunted by a deep sense of past slights. China's long journey toward modernity began not because the dragon gently flexed its scaly muscles but because others prodded it with a sharp stick. When China began to open up to the world 150 years ago, it did so because gunships of the British Royal Navy, working in the service of opium smugglers, forced...
Cameron is a director who virtually lives underwater, from his debut feature Piranha Part Two to his recent marine documentaries. Oh, and Titanic. Cameron's ultimate sea adventure, surely his wettest, is this aquanautic journey leading to the discovery of a new species. There's a whirling wonder in this confrontation. And a sobering message: sometimes the monster on the ocean floor is man. --By Richard Corliss
BONO It's proof of how far we've come. The difference between this era and the original manifests itself in the Drop the Debt campaign. It's the journey from charity to justice. From the tin cupping of Live Aid-big cups, sure, $200 million cups-to now, when $25 billion is on the table, and we're not begging for it. Over the years, with the Make Poverty History campaign in Europe and the One campaign in the U.S., we have moved into real politics and real activism. We've cultivated a constituency so that now, when those...
There isn’t always a golden finish at the end of the rainbow. But the journey to find that out takes maturation...