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Pregnant moms who smoke cigarettes may be harming not only their children but their grandchildren. In a study, youngsters whose grandmothers smoked during pregnancy were more than twice as likely to get asthma as children whose grandmothers didn...
Einstein was a familiar figure in town, often dressed in baggy khakis and sweat shirts, his omnipresent pipe creating a halo of smoke around his unkempt hair. Hulit's Shoe Store, a family business begun in 1929, was--and remains--a fixture for residents, and for the students and faculty of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. The academics bought their desert boots and penny loafers there, and when Princeton's many Nobel prizewinners over the years needed patent-leather shoes for the ceremony in Stockholm, they visited Hulit's too. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was known...
...caught-sneaking-inside-the-conclave" dream. But the fitful nights of the past two weeks have nontheless been filled with flashing images of Cardinals dropping folded notes in golden urns, then winking at me, and insiders whispering the name of the man who will emerge once the white smoke clears then snickering. After another busy morning of phone calls trawling for hints on the state of the race for the papacy I found myself briefly alone with an eggplant and mozzarella panino at an outside table at the Bar Gianicolo in Piazzale Aurelio, about a half-mile up the hill...
...says Pope has died" - after being phoned by colleague Nicole Winfield, whose Blackberry had vibrated with the news. Still, AP and ANSA were ahead of the pack. When a new pope is chosen, they'll all be waiting, fingers poised over the "send" button, for a puff of white smoke to appear over the Sistine Chapel. The name will be announced shortly after to the piazza - and maybe simultaneously via another mass email from Navarro...
...press conference, Marini and Navarro-Valls simply chuckled at the efforts of all the veteran Vaticanisti journalists trying to pry details about the conclave out of them. What they did confirm was that they will follow the tradition of releasing a puff of white smoke above the Sistine Chapel once they've made their choice. But the last time this happened, when JohnPaul II was chosen, there was confusion because the smoke was hazy and it was difficult to tell whether it was white or black. Archbishop Marini confirmed that the smoke will be used again, but added...