Word: marked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daily Press (circ. 320,000), another News lookalike, was started by Brothers Gary and Mark Stern, who have published strike papers in Detroit and Baltimore...
...requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns?the test of the compleat swimmer. Caulkins beat Tauber by an astonishing seven seconds, finishing nearly half a pool length in the lead. In the 200-meter medley, Caulkins smoothly shaved 1.02 seconds off her own world mark. Too nearsighted to see the Scoreboard, she had to get a teammate to explain the reason for the crowd's roar...
Perhaps the most compelling reason for the widespread interest is that black holes seem to mark the point where astrophysics intersects metaphysics and science finally converges with religion. Indeed, black holes seem to have universal implications, for the gravitational collapse of stars suggests that the universe, too, can begin falling back in on itself. If that happens, its billions of galaxies will eventually crush together and could form a super black hole. And what then? Nothing? Or would a new process of creation somehow begin...
Luciani, who lived in the patriarchal palace next to St. Mark's Basilica, loved to exercise by walking or riding a bicycle through the city's streets! Jesuit Theologian Herbert Ryan of Los Angeles' Loyola Marymount University recalls how, carrying a cake in a pink box for the participants, Luciani once walked 25 minutes from his residence to the meeting of an ecumenical commission...
Never too big for his red hat, the patriarch always kept a confessional to hear the sins of penitents in St. Mark's Basilica. It was there, says Ryan, that he picked up much of his rough talent in German and certain Slavic dialects. He speaks French well but English dreadfully. His personal habits are not forbiddingly ascetic. He smokes cigarettes and an occasional cigar and, like nearly every Italian, enjoys his wine...