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After 20 minutes, Schönborn ducked into the bronze-gilded, Vatican-owned Via della Scrofa, where he is staying along with several brother Cardinals. There they can share silence and prayer over the next few days. But there will be intense conversations too. --By Jeff Israely/Rome

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Last Audience With the Pope | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

...Frank truly is, but not the ordinary, hefty domestic animal known as Sus scrofa. He is a Vietnamese potbellied porker, a miniature breed on the verge of becoming America's trendiest pet -- at least where zoning laws permit -- and one of its priciest (a well-bred sow reportedly sold for $34,000). About one-tenth the size of the average Hampshire pig, mature potbellies weigh from 70 lbs. to 150 lbs. and stand coffee-table tall. Bright and affectionate, the primarily dark gray or black porkers will happily feed on Purina Lab Mini- Pig Chow Grower, or on almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: This Little Piggy Ate Roast Beef | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine in the world," says Sinclair Lewis Socialite Lucille McKelvey, but the remark passes several noodle-lengths over the head of George Babbitt, who answers: "Oh, I-yes. That must be nice to try that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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