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...most Londoners, it is a great help to be able to get their goods around the central area promptly. I would commend a congestion charge for all large cities whose residents would like to be able to breathe clean air. Malcolm Dymott Uxbridge, England Re your selection of Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni: Although I work in Vienna, I am Roman, and not very young. I have never seen Rome in as poor condition as it is under Veltroni's administration. He apparently is a kind man who believes that to manage a city, it is sufficient to visit...
...packed humanitarian video game that lets players rack up points for air dropping food rations and surveying war-torn populations on the fictitious island of Sheylan. "The gaming market is saturated with blood and guts and gore," says Justin Roche, the game's project manager at WFP headquarters in Rome. "We've turned the concept on its head by addressing the urgency and immediacy of a real crisis situation." In its first six weeks, the game has been downloaded-for free-more than 800,000 times at food-force.com The site includes lesson plans for teachers and background info...
...talked to a lot of people who don’t go abroad because they don’t want to miss a semester of Harvard,” says Anna G. Dolganov ’05, a classics concentrator who studied abroad last spring in Rome, through a Duke University-sponsored program. “And they’re not going because they’re afraid....They’ve heard the courses are b.s. and not very challenging...
...split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose the church teachings they wish to follow and whom the Pope disdains, would return to their pews on Sundays. Enlightened views on contraception, stem-cell...
...split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose the church teachings they wish to follow and whom the Pope disdains, would return to their pews on Sundays. Enlightened views on contraception, stem-cell...