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...story structure whose 154 rooms surround palm-filled inner courtyards. Guests with rooms facing west gaze out on a beach with sand the consistency of powdered sugar and water that has never known seaweed. Those to the east look out over an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones that Jack Nicklaus has described as "more fun to play than any course I know." Farther to the east stands Mauna Kea itself, whose 13,825-ft. snow-capped crest makes it the tallest island mountain in the world...
...early as the 3rd century, Pope Stephen I condemned the practice of rebaptizing converted Donatist heretics in North Africa. Despite its attack on Reformation doctrines, the 16th century Council of Trent formally acknowledged the validity of Protestant baptisms. Time and again since then, the Holy Office, the Vatican's guardian of faith and morals, has ruled that converts should not even be "conditionally" baptized unless there is clear evidence that the form of the first christening was defective...
...houses and a resort hotel. The houses are in the $40,000-$150,000 price range and include a cubistic concrete and glass extravaganza designed by Paul Rudolph. Many of them have interior-court swimming pools, open to the sky but screened against flying insects. Aside from a Robert Trent Jonesdesigned golf course, featuring a famed 9th hole where the player must drive the ball across 100 ft. of water to a green surrounded by five sand traps, Ponte Vedra has its own 10,000-acre hunting preserve, stocked with turkey, quail and mallard duck. Judge Harold Medina each winter...
...substance" of the bread and wine became Christ's body; what remained, visible to the senses, were merely "accidents"-the shape and texture of the host, the taste and color of the wine. In reaction to the dissenting views of the Protestant reformers, the 16th century Council of Trent made this teaching an article of faith...
...that they would hurt his business. An ardent antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love of life...