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...veterans this week in New Orleans. At a small prescreening of the documentary, a handful of "greatest generation" heroes cried throughout it, knowing, as they had learned when they gave their all for democracy a half-century ago, that freedom from tyranny remains the highest aspiration of mankind...
...fiercely guarded by the Vatican ever since. Less than two weeks later, Pope John Paul II revealed the secret to the public. The Pope said it foretold the attempt on his life in 1981. Robbins had postulated a slightly different conclusion, namely, that "the salvation of mankind would come from a source other than the church." Robbins says he suspects his version may have hit a little too close to home, causing the Vatican to scramble for cover. "I'd hate to accuse the Pope of reading my book, but 10 days after it's published, they reveal a long...
...scenario is less a plot than a commercialized exploitation of primal material buried none too deep in mankind's collective unconscious and nowadays exploitable worldwide, down to the last plastic McDonald's mug. The hero with a thousand spin-offs...
Gardner closed his speech with a line from the Declaration of Independence, quoting Thomas Jefferson's belief in the necessity for a "decent respect for the opinion of mankind...
...urbanization of the globe is more than an aesthetic problem. Human sprawl threatens the habitat of most animal and plant species--except for cockroaches, rats, pigeons, crabgrass and other organisms that thrive with mankind. Relentless human expansion is the main reason the world is fast losing its biodiversity, raising the specter that we will eventually live, in the words of writer David Quammen, on a "planet of weeds." If that danger doesn't seem imminent, consider this: sprawl is paving over the land we need to grow our food. Since 1981 the amount of land around the world devoted...