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...witness criticized his papacy's conduct. His beatification was repeatedly postponed, most recently in the 1980s, when churchmen apparently deemed it not to be "opportune." That seems to have changed. It will be interesting to see whether the upcoming ceremony will end the debate or spark an even more thorough public airing of this larger-than-life Pope's remarkable career...
...find out, we hired indoor-air detectives Terry Brennan and Richard Shaughnessy to come in this summer and give us a thorough checkup. Shaughnessy is head of indoor-air research at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. Brennan is president of Camroden Associates of Westmoreland, N.Y., and is generally regarded as one of the top "building scientists" in the country. Things have never been busier for them and the thousands of other indoor-air experts across the country, Brennan says, because people are catching on to the effects of indoor contaminants. Last week, a University of Maryland professor announced that...
...tell all your interesting troubles to the examining physician, and he or she routes you to the appropriate shamans and gurus--to cardiology or the department of digital prostate examinations or the hiccup guy or the specialist in owliness--and it may take several days to get a thorough checkup, the emphasis being on thoroughness. It's a good idea to bring a book. Dante would be good, or the Book...
...accepted in the American mainstream. Why, Jerry Seinfeld--the quintessential nominal Jew who quite cheerfully acknowledges his Jewishness but finds it so devoid of meaning that it plays no role whatsoever in his life--became the most popular figure in American popular culture. The embrace of Jews is so thorough that Irving Kristol once noted wryly regarding the alarming rates of Jewish assimilation, "The problem is that they don't want to persecute us, they want to marry...
...After the crash, Air France asserted, perhaps prematurely, that the crash was due not to any wing problem, like sneaking cracks, but to an exploding engine. That makes it the fastest investigation on record. They have not grounded the fleet beyond a thorough maintenance check, which on these delicate birds, with their 30-year-old technology, will be expensive...