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...call boys by their full first names rather than the shortened form they go by. In deference to the teacher of this skill, I rarely greet my father with any normal form of “Dad.” Instead it’s “Papa Bear” or “Mr. Man.”Even with all this training, I sometimes wonder why it’s impossible for me to stop. Being a constant nicknamers puts me up in the same league as George W. Bush (though I tend...
...higher ground, he stood on the city's humpback bridge. Below him were thundering waves. "I stood there, staring helplessly at black water that looked more like heavy mud," he recalls. "It was filled with corpses, cars, dead animals and rubble from destroyed houses." Then he heard a sound--"Papa ..."--and saw a girl of about 3 clinging to a wooden plank. "It was terrible," he says. "There were so many men on the bridge, but nobody made a move. I realized then that nobody was going to help, so I ran to the river bank and waded into...
...entire Church on his shoulders." Hours before the voting was to begin, he gave his last speech as Cardinal, an impassioned defense of orthodoxy in which he denounced "the dictatorship of relativism." The next day, he was Pope. Beaming from the loggia above a drizzly St. Peter's Square, Papa Benedetto XVI told the world that the Cardinals had elected "a humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." He quickly got down to business. Benedict fast-tracked John Paul's road toward sainthood, named his own successor in the doctrinal office and prepared his first encyclical (due out around...
...Kendall College, Chicago. All of a sudden, Japanese magazines and websites are crammed with kanten recipes, and one of the country's leading kanten manufacturers, Ina Shokuhin, has been struggling to meet demand. Visitors curious to try kanten's benefits for themselves can drop in at the Kanten Papa Caf?, tel: (81 3) 5358 8807, a kanten-based diner that Ina Shokuhin opened in Tokyo's trendy Shinjuku district last year. "Kanten gives the illusion you've had a filling meal, and it has staying power," adds Marcus. Only time will tell if the fad has staying power...
...Geisel--better known as Dr. Seuss--and The Big Honey Hunt, published in 1962, became the first of some 250 books in a series that has since sold nearly 300 million copies. The bears generated some criticism for stereotypical roles--Mama Bear tends to the cubs, for example, and Papa is a bit of a buffoon--to which the creators routinely replied, "But that's the way it is in Bear Country...