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Dean also insulted the Boston Herald for its coverage of Teresa Heinz Kerry, the Democratic candidate’s wife. Earlier this week, Heinz Kerry clashed with a reporter, urging him to “shove it,” after a sharp question...
...something that we decide that we will do, like we're off to buy a new car or something. It's a calling that you actually hear in the depths of your being." If Sister Veronica's call had not sounded in 1979, when she was 25, her razor-sharp curiosity might have carried her into a career in journalism. Or perhaps as a spruiker for L'Osservatore Romano. "Are you familiar with that?" she asks. "Oh, it's a great mag. The Holy Father's just put out an encyclical on the Eucharist...
...neophytes fascinated by Riversleigh's extinct megafauna (though many of these creatures were known already from deposits elsewhere in Australia), among them the rhinoceros-sized Diprotodon optatum, distantly related to the wombat; and the 3-m tall, 400-kg flightless bird Dromornis stirtoni, which had a beak large and sharp enough to tear the flesh off a kangaroo, if not as a predator then as a scavenger. Extracting the fossils of such creatures is harder than finding them. These palaeontologists aren't eggheads: they spend seven hours each day under a scorching sun levering boulders and smashing them open with...
There has been a sharp rise in the number of not-for-profit foundations throughout Europe. And a network of foundations is beginning to lobby for pan-European legislation. According to the Brussels-based European Foundation Centre, about a quarter of the 61,000 foundations in the European Union were established in the past decade. In Belgium one-third of its 323 foundations were created after 1990. Growth is particularly strong in Germany, where more than 3,000 of the nation's 12,000 foundations have been created since...
...hijackers went through Iran en route to the U.S. from al-Qaeda's Afghan training facilities, and that while no operational relationship existed, an element in Iran's leadership may have created a permissive environment for Osama bin Laden's men on the basis that despite their sharp differences they shared a common enemy in the U.S. President Bush earlier in the week suggested these revelations would be looked into, although the U.S. government has obviously been aware of this information for at least the past two years. And neo-conservative ideologues who had first promoted the Iraq invasion took...