Word: popes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Franco Zeffirelli, whose views mirror the Pope's on most issues, isn't enamored of the artistic taste of the Vatican. When it named 45 films with worthy religious content, none were his. He fumed, "My films have brought about many more conversions than all those cited in this absurd list...
VATICAN CITY: The ancient walls of the Sistine Chapel, the site of the papal conclaves where the College of Cardinals secretly chooses a new pope will soon be guarded against sophisticated electronic eavesdropping. A new rule book for papal conclaves written by Pope John Paul II lays down new rules for the conclaves. Included in the new rules: checks to ensure that "no audiovisual equipment" has been secretly installed. John Paul's revision of the conclave rules is not unusual -- nearly every pope this century has made changes, and John Paul is unusually sensitive to new technologies. Under his auspices...
...Pope said he hopes to make sure that the short period of exposure and the young age of the subjects (most were undergraduates) did not influence the study's findings...
...have underestimated the effect of marijuana, because we were looking at young college students who had only been smoking for a few years," Pope said...
According to Pope, subjects for his next study will be "people who have smoked 5,000 separate times in their lives--once a day for 13 years or more--and...look at these people not just one day after they stop smoking, but again seven days and 28 days after they stop smoking...