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...faded image of a body, splashes of blood. A scrap of cloth that may attest both Passion and Resurrection. The Roman Catholic hierarchy in this northwestern Italian city, renowned for its auto industry--and, well, for this--estimates that 3 million people will line up in the next eight weeks to view what has come to be known as the Shroud of Turin, on public display for the first time in 20 years. Seven hundred thousand have reserved their places. The Pope will arrive on May 24 to venerate the relic. Some of the pilgrims who precede and follow...
...wave of fascination, both popular and scientific. In the 100 years following Pia's epiphany, the cloth has been removed from its silver casket not just for the public but also to several waves of scientific observers. The trend's high point occurred in 1978, when the Roman Catholic Church allowed a five-day extravaganza during which more than two dozen scientists from the U.S., Italy and Switzerland performed a battery of tests on the shroud and also used pieces of tape to lift material from its surface for later study. The tests included photo- and electron microscopy, X rays...
...Gorbachev and the Pope, was shaped by communism. Born to a family of peasant farmers in 1943, he came as a young man to work in the vast shipyards that the communist state was developing on the Baltic coast, as did so many other peasant sons. A devout Roman Catholic, he was shocked by the repression of workers' protests in the 1970s and made contact with small opposition groups. Sacked from his job, he nonetheless climbed over the perimeter wall of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, at age 37, to join the occupation strike. With his electrifying...
...Brown's strength is the defense which is led by defensive middie and captain Brett Sowers and two excellent defensemen, three year starter Roman Knysh and All-Ivy honorable mention Dan Buttolph...
...that stick. "He asked me to come to Washington. He said, 'You can live on the Hill. I can find you a job.'" Clinton offered a sharply different account in his deposition, denying there was a relationship and saying that at the reunion Browning threatened to publish a "fantasy" roman a clef about Clinton, simply because she needed the money...