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...Benedict, who previously made the trip as a Cardinal, was asked by journalists on the plane how he felt about visiting Auschwitz "as a German." The Pope responded: "I am above all a Catholic. I must say that this is the most important point." Nationalities, he said, can help fulfill the "togetherness of the communion of the Catholic Church." After his election last April, Benedict said he saw a "providential design" in a Polish pope being succeeded by a German one. "Both popes in their youth - both on different sides and in different situations - were forced to experience the barbarity...
...Ricky Nelson, with the composer Harold Arlen and the wrestler Gorgeous George. He also played occasionally in rock band and briefly backed Vee in 1959, when the Buddy Holly soundalike singer was booked to fill the dates Holly couldn't make because he'd died in a plane crash in a frosty Iowa cornfield...
...have in bringing an adolescent musical form to maturity. But by 1966 he wasn't having nearly as much fun making music as I was listening to it. The kid who wanted to be Elvis could now imagine dying like Buddy Holly: "You end up crashing in a private plane in the mountains of Tennessee. Or Sicily. ... I just wanna go home." He went home to upstate New York and crashed his 500cc T100S/R Triumph Tiger motorcycle...
...pink and smiles when the baby calls her Mama, even when Mother is in the room. It is Laura Richardson's dad, a 68-year-old pediatrician, wondering whether he should get smallpox and anthrax vaccines, so that if his kids were in trouble he could get on a plane and help them. "I thought I could go over if one of my children was horribly maimed or something like that," he says...
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...