Word: rome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that shopping malls created in the 1970s and 1980s. They defined not only how we bought stuff but also how we spent our time. The malls themselves became essential parts of a new suburban design, where castles of consumption shaped town layouts in the same way the Colosseum shaped Rome. At its heart, cybercommerce isn't just about building businesses either. It is also, explains Yang, about building a new culture of convenience and speed...
...Rome's response, however, suggests that Pope John Paul II may see a few contradictions. Without denying that salvation always begins with God's grace, the church refuses to relinquish some cooperative agency on humanity's part through, say, penance or charity. This and several other "divergences" are forcefully enough stated that German Lutheran Harding Meyer, one of the Joint Declaration's drafters, declares, "This is the worst news I've received during my whole career. This is not a basis for continuing the dialogue...
...also explain why clients of Meurice Dry Cleaners (also in New York) can FedEx their clothes from anywhere in the world so Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away as Rome.) But what excuse can be made for Mint Balls ($3.99 for two), which will be introduced at the National Pet Products Trade Show in Atlanta this week? Fido thinks you're playing catch, but you're really mint-freshening his breath...
DIED. AGOSTINO CARDINAL CASAROLI, 83, a tailor's son who became the Vatican's unflappable envoy to Soviet bloc nations in the 1960s; in Rome. Upon his election as Pope, John Paul II quickly named the omnicompetent prelate the Vatican's chief diplomat, a post he filled with skill and judgment from 1979 to 1990. In 1989, in perhaps his most dramatic moment, Casaroli helped broker the meeting between the Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev...
...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarters of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, Green Line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...