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After the war, in the late 1940s, as the communist government settled in, the young priest embarked on what would be a rapid rise through the still embattled church's hierarchy. By 1967 he was a Cardinal. Mixing aggressiveness with accommodation, Wojtyla managed to build a huge church for 100,000 Catholic citizens in the industrial city of Nova Huta and reach out to a wide cross section of workers, youths and intellectuals. Yet what turned a provincial prince into a rising church star was the churchwide reform of Vatican II. At the Second Vatican Council (1961-65), Wojtyla contributed...
...First World ghetto, tens of thousands of believers joined the church in countries where its potential for growth is the greatest. Worldwide, there has been a 41% increase in the number of Catholics (from 757 million in 1978 to 1.09 billion in 2003). Africa has seen the most rapid growth, a 168% jump in members. Similarly, while the overall number of diocesan priests rose a mere 2.5% during the Pope's reign, that count in Africa went...
...fitted with the same kind of sophisticated medical equipment that would be found in any high-tech ICU, and a doctor, nurse and technician are aboard each flight. Holcomb says the greatest medical achievement in the Iraq war has been how fast injured soldiers are moved to safety. "The rapid evacuation of casualties is stunning," he says. At first glance, Landstuhl doesn't seem like it could play a key role in any war. The complex of low-slung buildings and neatly manicured pathways, set on a forested hillside above a small town, looks more like a country retreat than...
...fast? "The problem with a stock like this is that it attracts fanatics," says Brian Ruttenbur, an analyst at Morgan Keegan. Enthusiasts, says Ruttenbur, treated Taser like a dotcom, sending its price soaring, even though the company posted just $4.4 million in earnings in 2003. The company's rapid growth--some 10% of the nation's 1.1 million officers now have a stun gun--led investors to hope that soon every police officer would get a Taser, just as most carry batons and pepper spray...
Government Commission’s true strength lies in its impeccable sequencing. The album’s spans Mogwai’s four albums, as well as two tracks from Ten Rapid, a collection of early singles predating the band’s classic 1997 debut, Young Team. But rather than coming off like a hodge-podge of oddities, it has a straight and organic flow, peaking with a ballooned-out version of the schizophrenic epic “Like Herod” and coming to rest with a fittingly shoegaze whimper on the fuzzed-out “Stop...