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...financial backing in 1999, following the tragedy at Columbine High School with its implied connection to violent video games.Eighteen months later, the company released its first game, “Catechumen,” a first-person shooter set during Christianity’s early days in the historical Roman Empire. In it, players must “rescue [their] captured Christian brethren… [who] have been taken hostage by the evil Roman Empire, controlled by Satan himself.” Because the company seeks to provide an alternative to games that “portray violence to human...
...also serves as the Vicar of Rome, charged with standing in for the Pope in many of his duties as official Bishop of Rome. In that role, Ruini forged close relationships with Pope John Paul II and with his successor, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, another top official in the Roman Curia. Vatican insiders say Ruini's support for Ratzinger in the conclave was crucial to his election. The Pope has since praised Ruini repeatedly for his aggressive - and effective - defense of Roman Catholic values in Italy's public sphere. A lanky figure with a tendency to slouch, Ruini can seem...
Although manufacturers feared that the Vespa's popularity would be short-lived, within 10 years Piaggio had sold more than 1 million. The sexy little scooter was immortalized in the 1953 movie Roman Holiday as the vehicle of choice of the dolce vita set. And two decades later, it became the symbol of disenfranchised youth in Quadrophenia. Today it's still the low-cost, high-status alternative to cars in big cities and on college campuses. ?By James Scully
...Superiors often discouraged these women from careers in science, according to the panel members. Sidney C. Wolff, the first female director of a prominent U.S. observatory, was once told that aggressiveness, a necessity for being successful in the sciences, was unattractive in women. When future NASA researcher Nancy Grace Roman asked a high school teacher if she could take an additional year of mathematics, the reaction was, “What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?” Aside from discrimination, Yale Professor of Physics C. Meg Urry struggled with the lack of role models...
...Born in Manhattan, Seidel majored in the classics at the University of California, Berkeley. Studying Greek democracy and the Roman republic, he says, created in him a “sense of commitment to the public good and public service.” By the time he came to Cambridge to attend the Graduate School of Design in 1999, he planned to bring his experience in the ivory tower into the public arena...