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...speeches in Polish, but (as planned) spoke almost exclusively in Italian, the official Vatican tongue, with an aide translating into the local language. There could be no more jarring reality for this passionately Catholic country that had grown used to seeing one of their own in the seat of Peter, and relied on John Paul's unique leadership to help end Communist rule and chart a course for Poland's future...
...Times They Are A-Changin'" and a dozen others? Dylan not a political animal? At the August 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dylan sang one of his few optimistic political numbers, "When the Ship Comes In," and Peter Paul and Mary sang the summer's hit "Blowin' in the Wind...
...have been unable to find any evidence of contaminated poultry in the village that may have triggered the human infections. "If we can't find an external source that explains all seven confirmed cases, then we have to go with the theory that this is human-to-human," says Peter Cordingley, the spokesperson for the WHO's Western Pacific regional headquarters. Human-to-human transmission within a family is believed to have occurred at least twice before, in Thailand and Vietnam, although never involving this many people. But if the 10-year-old boy was infected by a family member...
...woolly ones regularly walked the streets to market, so to contrast old and new uses of London's roads, the animals will be driven between Borough and Smithfield markets via the ultramodern Millennium Bridge that spans the Thames. Norman Foster, the bridge's architect, plans to lead the way. PETER ACKROYD'S THAMES On the same bridge - the first to be built in London in more than 100 years - bone up on the history of the river and the city it slices at a neat little exhibition put together by London biographer Peter Ackroyd. Its layout mirrors the capital...
...Peter Shankman sees air travel as a risky business. But it's not the plane he worries about. It's the empty seat on his left - and who's going to fill it. "You watch [an error occurred while processing this directive] people coming down the aisle toward you and the theme from Jaws is playing in your head. You're thinking, 'Oh no, not this one' or 'That one looks like bathing is optional.'" So the 33-year-old U.S. marketing and p.r. executive created AirTroductions, an online service that matches up air travelers for business, friendship, romance - whatever...