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Those teachings soon overshadowed their God-struck author. John Knox carried Calvinism to Scotland, converting the rambunctious Catholic country with messages of doom. Puritan Jonathan Edwards shook the New World when he called the colonials "sinners in the hands of an angry God." Early in the 20th century, German Sociologist Max Weber found in Calvinism the seedbed of capitalism, a "Protestant ethic" that drove men to accumulate wealth as evidence of divine approval...
...doctor remained intensely private. Associates regarded him as brilliant-but austere, humorless and egotistical. "Medicine was his life," said Samm Sinclair Baker, who co-authored the book. But Tarnower also hunted big game in Africa, birds in the Carolinas and Newfoundland and went fly-fishing in Iceland and Scotland. Above ail, he was fond of giving small, elegant dinner parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained: "My cravings...
...London's fashionable Chelsea district, can monitor at least 1,000 telephone lines simultaneously. It is crammed with highly sophisticated electronic gadgetry, including a computer that allegedly can transcribe spoken words into printout. Backed up by separate operations specializing in planting bugs, Tinker Bell supplies information to Scotland Yard and two intelligence agencies. The targets of such surveillance, according to a former intelligence official quoted by Campbell, include not only suspected criminals but members of Parliament, trade union leaders, journalists, shipping companies and foreign embassies-"including the American...
...also filed a suit against the Salem's owner, a Lebanese-American shipper named Frederick Soudan, charging that he purposely ordered the ship sunk two weeks after 170,000 tons of its oil were secretly unloaded in South Africa. Because of the magnitude of the alleged fraud, Scotland Yard has entered the investigation, and as a Greek shipping executive in London observed last week, "It's a lulu." At the heart of the mystery may be the oil needs of South Africa. Blacklisted by Arab oil producers, and with no wells of its own, the Pretoria government...
...central London, the underground is paralyzed, bridges and tunnels are closed. Hospitals struggle valiantly to maintain services, their task made all the more difficult by power blackouts, loss of telephone service, contamination of the water supply and the difficulty of mobilizing rescue teams. The Houses of Parliament and New Scotland Yard stand in several feet of water. Total damages from the great Thames flood: more than $6 billion...