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...Setting the Record Straight Planetary Passing Our May 31 report on Venus' crossing directly in front of the sun stated incorrectly that "Venus passes between Earth and the sun more than once a year on average." It does so every 584 days...
...years ago, the mayor of Paris bestowed an unusual gift upon residents stuck in the city during the annual grandes vacances, or summer break. An artificial beach was laid out next to the river Seine, complete with imported white sand, palm trees and sun loungers, becoming an instant hit with tourists and locals alike. The inspired notion of turning a busy strip of asphalt into a downtown beach has now found another convert?the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Located on the banks of the river Maas at Leuvehaven, Rotterdam's beach is set against a backdrop of high-rises...
...convicted tax cheat dons a crown in a federal office building, declares himself the Messiah and claims to have redeemed the souls of Hitler and Stalin. When Salon.com revealed last week that dozens of legislators attended a bizarre event staged by eccentric businessman and wealthy campaign contributor THE REV. SUN MYUNG MOON in the Dirksen Senate Office Building last March, red-faced pols said they had been duped by invitations to a "peace-awards banquet." "This went far beyond anything that I expected," said Representative Danny Davis of Illinois, who carried a crown for Moon's wife. A spokesman...
...Washington Times is the paper of choice of a self-selecting group of Republicans on Capitol Hill and beyond. It was founded in 1982 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and a cadre of journalists who wanted to put more “morality” into the Washington press. Before Bill O’Reilly’s “no spin zone,” they were hatching theories about the dominance of the liberal media—and plotting to topple, or at least challenge...
Walking along the street, old and young chatter pleasantly in the twilight of a summer’s day. But, in the words Hemingway famously immortalized, the sun also rises. And here, in a country once the most powerful in the world, then lost and forgotten, the sun seems to be rising once again...