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...Jesuit-run radio outlet has several dozen transmitters on a plot 30 km from Rome. They are used to broadcast the Church's message in 35 languages around the world. Residents of two nearby towns have been complaining for years that the signals disrupt doorbells, phones and television sets. Only recently have the health aspects of electromagnetic pollution, dubbed by the Italians elettrosmog, become an issue. A consumer group claims that communities near the transmitters have higher incidences of leukemia among children than those in the rest of the region around Rome, a statistic contested by the Vatican. Two Jesuit...
...trading e-mails. The earliest form of online therapy may have been Ask Uncle Ezra, Cornell University's 15-year-old automated mental health site, where questions are answered by university specialists. Now you can also communicate with a therapist through simultaneous chat, instant messaging or video. Based in Rome, www.psychoinside.it offers Italian speakers links and information as well as online therapy. Interapy is a Dutch-language Amsterdam University program set up to assess the online treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. The Samaritans offer English speakers all over the world free e-mail counseling; contact jo@samaritans.org. All therapists - online...
...lately the speculation has grown intense, fueled by John Paul's declining health--at almost 81, he shows the symptoms of Parkinson's disease--and by a flurry of Vatican activity. Last month 44 Cardinals were installed, and in May the princes of the church will again travel to Rome for a wide-ranging discussion on Catholicism in the new millennium...
Along with "Beast" and "Beneath the Sea" there was "Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers" - ineradicable images of wrecked saucers slicing through the Capitol Dome - and "20 Million Miles to Earth," where Rome's Coliseum stood in for the Coney Island roller coaster. But by the end of the decade, the genre Harryhausen helped define was dying at the box office. Pop cinema was getting sexier and a lot more violent. As Ray later said about his unsuccessful 1969 picture "Valley of the Gwangi," "A naked dinosaur just was not outrageous enough...
...this isn't a scene from a soon-to-be released B movie. It was the scene Friday at a press conference held by controversial scientists Panayiotis Zavos, Severino Antinori and Ali Ben Abraham. Surrounded by crowds of journalists and photographers, the men announced to a packed hall in Rome, Italy, that they were poised to begin a human cloning project. The team, which has already received messages of interest from 700 infertile couples, hopes to produce a successful clone in the next two years. Clones, the most famous of which remains Dolly the sheep, are created when an adult...