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...perfectly happy to accept the fact that Rome was not built in a day. So why, scientists wonder, do we cling so desperately to the idea that stem cell miracles are just around the corner...
...storm, spangled herself in gold and bent powerful men to her will. In other words, we think of her as Elizabeth Taylor. "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth" would have us remember her first as the sober-minded and politically adroit monarch who confronted the growing might of Rome. Following a highly successful run at the British Museum in London, this show brings its ancient treasures and new insights to Chicago's Field Museum. In statuary of the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra is voluptuous but coldly imperial. In pornography produced by her enemies she is a harlot coupling with...
...couple of sound people and a van and a camera and a producer and an on-camera correspondent to stand outside the Miami relatives' house and yak solemnly about how Elian came out this morning to play on the jungle gym. Close the bureaus in Rome, Moscow, Paris, and Tokyo. All you need to cover these stories is a few laptops and some rooms at the Holiday...
...much so that Chittister, 65, found a way to flout it that the Vatican could not ignore. The tussle began last spring, when Rome learned that the resident of the Mount St. Benedict monastery in Erie, Pa., had agreed to address the first international conference of a group called Women's Ordination Worldwide in Dublin. The conference clearly challenged the debate freeze, and there were even rumors it might "ordain" its own female priests. Accordingly, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life sent a letter directing Chittister's prioress, Sister Christine Vladimiroff, to issue a "precept...
...least one other superior receiving similar orders complied. Vladimiroff flew to Rome to discuss the issue. She returned unswayed, and on the night before Chittister's departure for Ireland, Vladimiroff handed her a letter--co-signed by 127 of Mount St. Benedict's 128 active nuns--stating that she would not relay the command. The grounds: Mount St. Benedict is run on a model of "co-responsibility" rather than a "superior-subordinate" model, and prayerful consensus did not support the travel ban. "Silencing is inappropriate. It's patronizing and treats adults as children," Vladimiroff told TIME. "I cannot ask myself...