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Precisely at noon, the chanting of the Rosary begins. Most days this gathering in Conyers, 20 miles southeast of Atlanta, numbers a few dozen. But if it is the 13th of the month, the count may swell as high as 20,000, as travelers from across the country arrive to see the monthly visions of Christ and the Virgin Mary. "We thought we would come just for the blessings, not necessarily to be healed," says Karen Horne of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has lived with multiple sclerosis for 17 years and been in a wheelchair for the past five. Duquelia Dickerson...
...trees and rained down upon pedestrians. In that same grand tradition of meddling with nature, Alaska has declared an air war against hundreds of wolves in an effort to boost already abundant populations of caribou and moose. And all to impress hunters and tourists. Never mind that when herds swell, starvation is often close by. Even as Alaska prepares to wage its wolf war, conservationists in the Lower 48 mourn the absence of wolves and seek to reintroduce them...
...Roman Catholic Church faces its own gender battles as the U.S. bishops meet in Washington to wrestle with the church's controversial policies on women. Activists believe they are caught up in one of Christendom's great and historic transformations. "The last time there was such a ground swell that was not heeded was the Protestant Reformation," says feminist Sandra Schneiders, an Immaculate Heart sister teaching at California's Jesuit School of Theology...
Surprised by the swell of popular opinion against its decision to remove paper cups from the dining hall, Eliot House Dining Services ended a day-long controversy yesterday by reinstating the cups...
...progress. Constant change gives rise to widespread nervousness and anxiety. In solving old problems, we often create new ones in their place. Improvements in life expectancy make possible an aging population that puts a growing strain on the health-care system. Private cars give us unprecedented mobility but swell the volume of traffic to the point of gridlock. In the course of enjoying the delights of consumption, we generate so much garbage that we are running out of places to dump...