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Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics. But two months before a scheduled trip to Turkey, his first to a predominantly Muslim country, Pope Benedict XVI raised a ruckus with a provocative lecture on the relationship between faith, reason and violence on a visit to Regensburg University, where he once taught theology. As a good professor might, he quoted a 14th [an error occurred while processing this directive] century Byzantine Emperor. But this Emperor was making a furious criticism of Islam: "Show me just what Muhammad brought...
...contributed to making jeans part of the luxury universe," explains Rosso. "If we could do that with denim, maybe we could do it in other ways. My intention is to be part of a new, upcoming version of prêt-à-porter." Investment bankers are skeptical that Rosso could transform Diesel into a multibrand conglomerate, but smaller designers have long hoped for a private concern to find a third way between big business and the financial pitfalls of independence...
...carries other items like trunks and coffee tables. The name of the collection comes from Hagan's idea that small changes with small pieces can make a room perfect. "We call them 'perfect' because in many ways that's how they seem," she says. "Small, affordable jewels can instantly transform a room into something special." Perfect Pieces range from $8 for a bud vase to $180 for a set of nesting tables...
...dams essential to meeting our future needs for water. Or the inability of our society to channel dissent into debate, an inability that means the publication of cartoons in a newspaper in Denmark is able to provoke not just a response in our own newspapers but also riots that transform our cities into virtual battlegrounds. The failure to bridge such divisions is particularly dangerous for Pakistan as a country with myriad ethnic and religious groups. The rich-poor divide feeds the waves of crime rocking cities like Karachi, and the ideological war between Sunni and Shia Muslims fuels domestic terrorism...
...there had been, we wouldn't be able to spot them. That's because hydrogen-gas clouds are nearly opaque to visible light; no ordinary telescope will ever be able to see what happened afterward. Yet somehow the matter that started as a sea of individual atoms managed to transform itself into something more. So back in the early 1990s, Loeb began lobbying theorists to make a major push to deduce through computer simulations how the first stars formed. The plan was to re-create the young universe digitally, plug in equations for the relevant physics and see what must...