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Fortunately, there are a number of simple ways you can monitor the Interweather. Perhaps the most comprehensive of these is the web site maintained by Matrix Information and Directory Services (MIDS), a small Texas firm that turns a profit by predicting the Interweather. Every hour, Java applets on the MIDS...
The pope may be wondering just how welcome a guest he will be in Israel. Just two months after overriding Catholic objections to allow Muslims to build a mosque adjacent to the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth, the Israeli government angered the Vatican Sunday by breaching diplomatic protocol in...
But the pontiff's welcome from ordinary Israelis is likely to be tepid, at best. "The history of anti-Semitism in the Catholic Church makes Israelis deeply resentful of the pope," says Beyer. "Despite his efforts to rectify some of the wrongs, many Jews believe official Catholic attitudes contributed directly...
Floods and earthquakes usually spell political trouble for Latin American strongmen, but Venezuela's killer flood may affirm the popularity of President Hugo Chavez. The former paratrooper, who once served jail time for a failed coup attempt, personally took command of 1,000 elite paratroopers over the weekend and supervised...
Although he has alarmed the country's traditional elites as well as foreign investors with his left-leaning policies and his overt admiration for Cuba's President Fidel Castro, Chavez last week received a ringing endorsement from his electorate when 72 percent of voters supported his new constitution in a...