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Pope John Paul II's 229-page "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" -- the first mass-appeal book by a sitting Pontiff -- starts selling at bookstores worldwide tomorrow morning. TIME religion writer Richard N. Ostling, who's sneaked an advance peak, says U.S. distributor Alfred A. Knopf's million-copy advance printing may be an American record. The $20 hardcover is being put on sale in 35 countries in 21 languages, a commercial feat rivaled only by Mikhail Gorbachev's "Perestroika" and Madonna's teaser "Sex." Ostling, who says many expected repackaged boilerplate from the Holy See, says the Pope...
Stocks Hit Seven-Month Peak...
...other months." But other parents find the life-style change beneficial. Says Robin Andrews, a landscape designer in Mooresville who has two children in the year-round program: "We can take the kids on vacations that are less crowded and less expensive because we don't go during peak periods...
...Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more tourists to the Red Sea riviera. The electrical grids of the region could be linked to share peak loads and save billions...
...Jupiter, which ended at 4 p.m. EDT, prompted Net bombardment on Earth. The sites providing spectacular images of the actual collisions were some of the most popular. The Internet address at the National Space Science Data Center, for example, was hit with 5,400 accesses an hour during its peak period. Now that the Jupiter light show is history, the most trafficked locations are a lot less jammed. Reach the National Space Science Data Center at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/sl9/comet_images.html.