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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church's opposition to abortion began with a doctrinal manual, the Didache (circa 100 A.D.), which called all abortion "murder." That view has never much altered through the centuries: the Second Vatican Council reiterated that abortion is "an unspeakable crime." Abortion did not become much of an issue among Catholics, or members of other religions, until the 20th century, when some governments began to legalize it. Modern Popes have opposed abortion for any reason "from the moment of conception," and John Paul links it to such assorted violations of human rights as mercy killing...
...held to stricter parallel verses in Mark and Luke. Its doctrine holds that a divorced spouse who remarries lives in a state of adultery. The current argument within Catholicism is about whether or not the church should come to terms with the millions of Catholics now into their second marriages and still eager to be on good terms with the church...
...inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened a new era. As the German historian Emil Ludwig described the original event, "When Edison snatched up the spark of Prometheus in his little pear-shaped glass bulb, it meant that fire had been discovered for the second time, that mankind had been delivered again from the curse of night...
...bathing, damaged his health by subsisting on pie and coffee, and neglected his two wives and six children. He lavished material goods on them, but otherwise paid scarcely any attention to them; in fact he rarely slept at home, preferring the laboratory. His first wife died grossly overweight; his second once said their marriage had been "no great love." The Hollywood picture of Edison as a dedicated battler for the good of humanity could hardly be more wrong. Much as his inventions did benefit humanity, Edison's object was to make money, as much as he could. His first...
...direction." Like the Burt Reynolds character in Starting Over, the bearded Brooks, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lytton Strachey, apparently had a slow recovery from divorce. "I would go out on a date," he says, "and have difficulty breathing." But he finally had a soft landing into a second marriage, with Holly Holmberg, a stewardess for Northwest Airlines. Since then his chief emotional setback has been the destruction of his Malibu house in a giant brushfire last year. "It was the only thing I had ever owned," he observes sadly...