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...more may go the same way. So let's focus our attention on what we know: that if we don't do something quickly, more and more endangered species will die out. Our impact on the climate can be reversed but extinct species can never be replaced. Arthur Hurwitz, Randwick, Australia...
...visitors - more than 125,000 from overseas and 100,000 from around Australia - are in Sydney for World Youth Day, a week-long celebration of Catholic faith that will culminate July 21 in a Mass on the city's Randwick Racecourse. On Monday, while Pope Benedict XVI recovered from jet lag in a rural retreat, throngs chanted hymns and took turns carrying a 12-foot (3.8-m) wooden cross through the city's streets. In St. Mary's Cathedral, people lit candles and knelt to pray before a casket holding the remains of Italian youth worker Pier Giorgio Frassati, which...
...more aggressive in older children; this needs more research. Second, compared with young children, teens are obstreperous patients. "There could be a compliance component, but it can't just be that they (sometimes) don't take their tablets," says Supple's oncologist, Glenn Marshall, of Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick. Both doctors think the main explanation for the divergence is that a much higher proportion of child cancer patients take part in clinical trials. "In child cancer medicine, trials have been the bedrock on which cure rates have gone up," says Marshall, adding that adolescents haven't had the same...
...terrorism is not the issue. The real disaster is the loss of 230 lives and with them the happiness of the thousands who held them close. Whatever the cause, this is truly the grief of Greek tragedy. Finding the reason for it will never diminish the loss. MIKE FOSTER Randwick, Australia...
...contrast there was a chiding note in the Pope's major address to some 200,000 worshipers at Sydney's Randwick Racecourse later in the week. Though he praised the "characteristic dynamism" of the "young country," the Pope questioned whether "pride in having built a prosperous Australia is enough for you." He warned of "the temptation to be satisfied when material needs are fulfilled ... to forget life's moral and spiritual dimension ... to fill its place with counterfeits, some of which lead in the end to contempt for man." One symptom of such contempt, the Pope seemed...