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...MILLENNIUM FORCE Ohio This isn't the world's fastest ride anymore, but it may still be the scariest. The agonizingly slow crawl to the apex, overlooking Lake Erie, will have you begging for the 149-km/h drop...
...monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking for a site for a Protestant experiment in monasticism. Schutz also wanted to help refugees from Nazism and thus chose the hamlet of Taizè, near France's German-occupied zone. There he and a few colleagues spent two years hiding Jews and others fleeing persecution...In the early 1960s, without...
...several hundred feet - were an inspiration to 20th century engineers, and the result was the roller coaster. The U.S. once led the roller coaster field, but as new challengers have shown, no country has a monopoly on thrills. Here are some of our favorites, from Ohio to Taichung. Millennium Force Ohio This isn't the world's fastest ride anymore, but it may still be the scariest. The agonizingly slow crawl to the apex, overlooking Lake Erie, will have you begging for the 149-km/h drop. Leap The Dips Pennsylvania Located in Lakemont Park, Altoona, Leap the Dips was built...
...less than two dollars a day. Issues in poverty and development confront every country. (The number of impoverished women in the U.S. alone increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2004, reaching more than 14 million.) Great efforts are also needed to reach the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, which serve as a benchmark intended to significantly improve the lives of the world’s poorest people by 2015. There are few issues more worthy of a sustained commitment from Harvard to try to make a difference through our teaching, research and engagement in the world. Development...
...Zohar's elusiveness dates to its appearance in the Spanish region of Castile around 1280. Written in Aramaic, a language Jews had not composed in for centuries, the book was attributed to a great rabbi of a millennium earlier. But in fact, in the 1930s scholars determined that it was penned by one Moses de Leon and his associates in the 13th century...