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...arrival of a new Patriarch is also creating plenty of anticipation among religious leaders outside of Russia. Attending Alexy's funeral last month was an impressive array of clerics from dozens of countries and religions, including the main branches of Christianity. Notably, several prominent Catholic Cardinals showed up. Rome has no sway over the Orthodox Church's choice, but it is deeply interested in the new Patriarch. The 1-billion-strong Catholic Church is eager to forge closer ties to the largest branch of Orthodox Christianity after a millennium of prickly (at best) relations following the Great Schism...
Andiamo! High-speed train service has just launched in Italy, with trains, known as the Frecciarossa, traveling as fast as 217 m.p.h. The journey between Milan and Bologna takes just over an hour; from Milan to Rome, it's three and a half hours; and from Milan to Venice, 2 hr. 45 min. If you book your ticket before Jan. 13, you get a 10% discount...
...coming Cardinals from Africa, Vatican watchers cite Peter Turkson of Ghana, 60 and Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, 67 of South Africa, as potential papal material. Archbishop John Onayiekan of Nigeria, who may soon be up for a Cardinal slot, is considered "strong here and back there," says one Rome insider, referring to Onayiekan's knowledge of the Third World and his skills navigating the ins and outs of the Holy...
...stamps using international reply coupons. This strategy, Ponzi promised, enabled one to purchase postage at European currencies' lower fixed rates before redeeming them in U.S dollars at higher values. "For instance," Zuckoff explained in a Dec. 15 article for FORTUNE, "a person could buy 66 International Reply Coupons in Rome for the equivalent of $1. Those same 66 coupons would cost $3.30 in Boston," where Ponzi was based. But there weren't enough coupons in circulation to make the plan workable. The ploy bore the hallmarks of both Miller's scheme and others to follow it: it trumpeted the possibility...
...concrete's long-lasting thermal and acoustic properties in everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations. That in turn contributes to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete that American architect Richard Meier used for the Jubilee Church in Rome, for example, contains titanium dioxide, which keeps the concrete clean while also destroying pollutants around it, like car exhaust...