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...John Paul last year pursued this pattern with two important appointments. As Archbishop of Philadelphia, he chose Anthony Bevilacqua, 65, who had handled the ouster of a pro-choice nun in 1983. The see of Pittsburgh went to Donald Wuerl, 48, who had earlier been assigned to keep watch over Seattle's liberal Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen. Resentment over the Hunthausen affair is one cause of mistrust and disagreement between the Vatican and the U.S. hierarchy. In the hope of improving relations, several dozen U.S. bishops will travel to Rome in March for a highly unusual face-to- face meeting with...
...working with two U.S. companies to solve the problem. Starting next summer, the FAA will receive five new devices developed by San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. for screening checked luggage. The machine bombards luggage with neutrons that interact with the nitrogen in explosives, touching off a characteristic pattern of gamma rays. In tests conducted last summer at Los Angeles and San Francisco airports, the devices spotted more than 95% of suitcases containing test samples of explosive materials. But because they employ dangerous radiation, the machines, which cost as much as $1 million each, cannot be used on passengers...
Thinking so may be a comfort to Democrats, but it is the reductio ad absurdum of election analysis and the first step toward losing the next election. How long can Democrats go on missing the point? After a while -- say, a quarter-century -- a pattern begins to emerge. Since 1964 Democrats have lost every presidential election save one. And that one (Carter in '76) was a squeaker and a fluke, coming immediately after Nixon's fall, the Ford pardon and the biggest gaffe in the history of presidential debates (Ford liberating Poland...
When receiver coaches teach a flanker to run anew pattern, they are teaching him discipline asmuch as they are teaching him how to get open fora pass in next week's game...
Every month Stern, who herself was married this year, spends a week selecting possible matches for her clients, trying to find a pattern of likenesses, rather like assembling a multidimensional jigsaw puzzle. Much of the rest of her time is spent advising on anxieties of the heart: most members are very definite about a potential partner's height, build and age. Already members have gone through a fairly rigorous selection process: they must have incomes over $30,000 a year (unless they are students) and have a university degree (self-made people excepted). All are questioned about sexual diseases, particularly...