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Finis origine pendet," the Roman poet Manlius wrote. "The end depends on the beginning." Success in life hinges on how well we are reared--and what we learn in school. More than ever these days, getting off to a good start in college can make the difference between getting a degree and giving up. That makes the passage from teenager at home to first-year college student one of the most stressful and important transitions in life...
Female ordination may be one of the last live bones of contention between the Roman Catholic Church and its U.S. flock. Most American believers have long gone their own way regarding birth control or abortion. But that is not an option when it comes to who celebrates the sacraments, even though 71% of American Catholics surveyed in a May 2000 Gallup poll favored having female priests. Still, Rome has not budged on the issue. In 1994 Pope John Paul II emphatically restated the ban in a pastoral letter, and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared...
Qumran, where Dubay and Walker found the bones, was home to an ascetic sect of Jews, the Essenes, roughly contemporary with Jesus. In the cliffside caves, in the first century A.D., the sect members buried their sacred texts in sealed jars to save them from the Roman army. Those documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls, were discovered in 1947, and are the oldest existing scripture in Hebrew. But the lives of the Qumran people remain shrouded in mystery and controversy...
...State team doesn't buy the idea that the bones are only 200 years old. They point out that Roman-era pottery shards were found above the bones. People on the dig say Israeli researchers tend to oppose findings that, if precisely dated to the Christian era, might contradict the conventional view that the Teacher lived in the second century B.C. They also believe that the Israelis played down the find so as not to anger the rabbinical authorities who forbid digging up Jewish graves. For now, the arguments will have to stay on paper. To keep on the right...
...plumbing, cocktail lounges, automatic laundries, hairdressers, TV and enough electric power to light the city of Boise. Michigan authorities have already approved installation of additional electrical facilities to handle the increased load of electric frying pans and blankets, but Wisconsin has called a halt. Says Forest and Parks Superintendent Roman Koenings: "We have had requests to provide sewer hookup facilities for some campers, but we're not going to comply. We've gone as far as we're going...