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...Hong Kong ready for universal suffrage? For a territory that has had little experience with the rights and responsibilities of a full democracy, a sudden transition to democracy would be akin to parents giving their Ferrari keys to their teenagers, who will race wildly down the autobahn. Maurice Weya Templo, Jakarta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...cosmos was a complex of temples, the heart and soul of Aztec life. The largest, some 15 stories high, as tall as many European cathedrals, was a stepped pyramid topped by two shrines-one dedicated to the rain god Tlaloc, the other to Huitzilopochtli. This Great Temple, or El Templo Mayor, as the Spaniards called it, was the site of human sacrifice. Victims ascended the stairs, priests tore out then" hearts and the eviscerated bodies were tossed back down. As part of the rite, the Aztecs consumed some of the flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Poetry, Serpents and Sacrifice | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...Brazil. In Chile 700,000 of the country's 835,000 Protestants belong to Pentecostal churches. One out of two Puerto Rican Protestants is a Pentecostal. There are 112 Pentecostal churches in Greater Buenos Aires, 1,200 in Mexico, including Mexico City's 10,000-member Templo Central de Pentecostes. Spanish-speaking migrants have founded 250 Pentecostal churches in New York, 25 in Chicago, 39 in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fastest-Growing Church In the Hemisphere | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...Medio Templo, Idibus Decembris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 1/14/1887 | See Source »

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