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...anniversary of the original Earth Day to be half a billion strong, from the throngs planning to gather in Washington and Hong Kong to countless individuals ready to join in via the Internet. The theme is finding solutions to global warming: cars will be banned from some streets in Rome; Mexico City will send 30,000 students out to plant seedlings (new trees soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide); and the Earth Day Energy Fast campaign, based in Los Angeles, will urge folks to shut off appliances for 24 hours. For a rundown on events, visit www.earthday.net But saving...
DIED. GIORGIO BASSANI, 84, acclaimed Italian author of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1962), a haunting, semiautobiographical novel of an aristocratic Jewish family's illusory attempts to take refuge from the Fascists in a walled villa; in Rome...
Hadid's upcoming projects include Contemporary Arts Centers for Cincinnati and Rome and a ski-jump in Innsbruck, Austria...
Whom will the College of Cardinals elect to follow this extraordinary Pope? Not likely an American. U.S. Catholicism is seen as out of step with Rome--too worldly, too liberal, too full of dissent and disobedience. Forty percent of the Cardinals who will elect the next Pope are from developing nations, and there has been speculation that the next Pope could come from the growing ranks of African or Latin American bishops. But don't count on it. Says Father Richard McBrien, former chairman of the department of theology at Notre Dame: "The next Pope will be an Italian Cardinal...
...spots where Jesus may have been baptized; offered Mass from the site of Christ's Sermon on the Mount; climbed the steps to the upper room where tradition places the Last Supper; prayed at Gethsemane, where Jesus was betrayed; and, just before flying back to Rome, celebrated Mass again at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site at which Catholics and the Eastern churches believe Jesus was buried and resurrected. (Protestants believe Jesus rose from the nearby Garden Tomb...