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...first extra-Roman excursion, to the Adriatic port of Bari on May 29, Benedict seemed uncomfortable with the chants of "Be-ne-det-to!" by young Catholics eager to pick up the old "Gio-van-ni Paolo!" tradition. (In subsequent weeks, he even shushed them.) "John Paul built a rapport based on [such] enthusiasm," says a Rome-based Cardinal. "This Holy Father tends to diminish the importance of enthusiasm." While preaching, Karol Wojtyla would wave, gesticulate and repeatedly make the sign of the Cross. Benedict's pulpit style is austere by contrast, which more and more seems a philosophical choice...
...make Tanna the only island to record its kastom law in writing, a feat it completed in 1995, and though he worships in a church, at the same time Numake lives very much as kastom dictates. He embodies the meeting of two worlds found in many of his fellow ni-Vanuatu: a Western-dressed world traveler with a mobile phone and a partnership in the island's most upmarket resort, he consults healers who specialize in ridding people of curses, and talks with the spirits from which his island sprang...
...Leverett: Matthew D. Gibson, Kerry M. Houlihan, Andrew C. Karas, Nina Ni...
What caused the outburst of meteorological fury? This time not much of the blame goes to the usual suspect, El Ni??o, which has produced only a slight warming of the tropical Pacific since August. A more significant culprit, say meteorologists, is a less well-known phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), named after the pair of scientists--Roland Madden and Paul Julian--who discovered it in 1971. The MJO is a globe-girdling disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic...
...novel opens, 26-year-old Ni Niuniu has just returned from the hospital where she's been diagnosed as "mentally disordered." Outside she sees a city bustling with new roads, new cars, new phones, new buildings?and filled with a compassionless new breed of people chasing material wealth. She is a self-proclaimed "fragment in a fragmented age," left to dwell on her own adolescence and wonder where it all went wrong...