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...Sunday, in Sweetwater, the Mormon candidate who has been married to the same woman for almost forty years found himself trying to explain the appeal of Florida's sun-soaked fairer sex. "Why are there so many beautiful women here? I haven't figured this out," Romney said, innocently enough. "Cuban American women are gorgeous...
...Against the Wall of Science," at the holographic Future Fair, the narrator says, "For some reason, for some time in the beginning, there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they whirled noiselessly through the black holes of space. These insignificant lumps came together to form our first union - our sun, the heating system. And about this glowing gasbag rotated the earth, a cat's-eye among aggies, blinking in astonishment across the face of time." Please give credit where it's due! Phil Proctor, Beverly Hills, California
...with its sun-blasted beaches and tranquil coastlines, what could possibly be frightening about Florida? "The actual environment down here is a bit scary in that everything grows everywhere all the time," King says. "I don't think it's any accident that when I had the idea for the book, I was walking down the side of a road, it was getting dark, and I was literally entombed in foliage?big rhododendron bushes, like 20 feet high...
...victims, appeared to have taken the brunt of the explosion as it tried to pass the embassy vehicle. A third body, limbs blasted to bloody stumps, lay facedown on the road. To the east, the snow-capped peak of Mount Sannine turned blood red as the sun dipped below the Mediterranean, leaving the Lebanese to ponder the implications of yet another attempted assassination...
...Benedict, then the Vatican Cardinal in charge of Church doctrine, describing the Church's 17th century heresy trial against Galileo as "reasonable and fair." The famed Tuscan-born astronomer had been prosecuted for affirming that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but in fact orbited the Sun along with the other planets. Two years after the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's speech, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Church had treated Galileo, whose heliocentric theories have long since been proven correct. The future Pope's words, reads the text of the professors' letter, "offend...