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...Christian thinking begins by rejecting the Greek dualism of body and soul. The old idea of a soul that departs from the body at death "makes no sense at all," says Roman Catholic Theologian Peter Riga of California's St. Mary's College. "There is just man, man in God's image and likeness. Man in his totality was created and will be saved." Such theologians emphasize God's presence in the world. "God is the source of creativity and change and human selfhood," says Harvard's Harvey Cox. In sum, the process of salvation...
...Riga's Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Kalnberz has collected a bank of dead men's fingers, trimmed the skin and soft tissues, refrigerated the remaining bone, ligaments, and ten dons at -70° C. To use one of those severed fingers, the inventive surgeon first pares a strip of skin loose from a patient's abdomen, leaving both ends of the strip still attached to provide a blood supply. The loose part of the strip is rolled around the cadaver bone and sutured in place. After almost a month in the hospital, the patient is sent...
...whereabouts was unknown, he was never formally charged. Yet current German and Israeli governments and private Jewish organizations, such as the Federation of Jewish Communities, have a full file on him. On July 4, 1941, according to the federation, he ordered 300 Jews locked in a synagogue in Riga, then set it afire. A few weeks later, he ordered the drowning of 1,200 Jews in a lake at Kuldiga. And on November 30, 1941, says the federation, he participated in the murder of 10,600 people in a single night, personally overseeing the "liquidation" in a forest near Riga...
Your statement that Baron Munchhausen was a fiction [July 19] is untrue. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Baron von Munchhausen was born on May 11, 1720. He was a page at the court of Duke Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig, later served as lieutenant in Riga and advanced to captain in the regiment of Peter III of Russia in 1750. He was a great soldier, hunter and teller of tales. He died on Feb. 22, 1797. He is buried in Boden-werder, which to this day calls itself the "Munchhausen Stadt...
...almost everyone's lips. Nikolai Kotlyar, alias the Lipstick King, amassed a fortune before his arrest last winter by operating a hot lipstick syndicate from the basement of his house in a Moscow suburb (TIME, Dec. 15). Through nine strategically placed accomplices in a state-owned plant at Riga, said Izvestia. Kotlyar in 1960 alone got hold of 59,000 lipstick tubes, which an underground labor force filled with homemade batter and distributed nationwide. Top executives at the plant who, complained the paper, "considered the factory their patrimony," were paid from $220 to $1,660 a month each, while...