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McPhee, whom this reviewer has known for 40 years, is the most methodical of intuitive writers, or the most intuitive of methodicals. Intuition tells him to bang a gong from time to time, and he does: "The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone." Full stop. Paragraph break. While this astonishment reverberates, he goes on methodically to discuss orogeny, which is mountain building (benthic refers to the ocean bottom). He was an English major who had written about gold mining in Alaska without, as he admits, knowing how the gold got there to be mined. Neither did the miners...
...Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations--was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the Pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...
...good news (for me, anyway) is that I'm covered. Moreover, new laws provide volunteers with the most comprehensive safety net yet. Last year, in the spirit of Colin Powell's summit on volunteerism, Congress passed the Volunteer Protection Act providing immunity for Good Samaritans so long as their conduct is not criminal or does not constitute "gross negligence." So, if someone trips and burns on your grill at the church barbecue, the law protects you. Just don't stick his hand in the fire...
...Vatican's chief planner for the 2,000th-anniversary celebrations -- was also laying groundwork for a papal visit. The thinking is that the pope will visit biblical sites, including Ur, the birthplace of Abraham, in present-day Iraq. Other tantalizing events for 2000, in the talking stage, are a summit meeting for world Christian leaders and an interreligious gathering, Jews and Muslims included, on Egypt's Mount Sinai...
...Folks: You can rent any movie on any of these lists and not possibly go wrong; these are all great films. The main point of this little summit was mainly so that you would be able to read the lists and form elaborate and intense preconceptions about each one of us. So dig in. Just one favor: Go easy on the hate mail...