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...Hebei, Father Benedictus often cooperates with an official church located just down the lane from his courtyard sanctuary. When the church needed help clearing a vacant lot, he dispatched young parishioners to help. But he is most comfortable staying underground?because he wants to report to Rome. "For Catholics," says Bishop Zen, "to be free means to be in contact with the Holy See." China's Catholics hope that the new Pope will be allowed to stay in closer touch with them than his predecessor...
Less than 10 miles from the Mexican border, a vacant lot in Sierra Vista, Ariz., looks like a trash dump. Between the chaparral and scrub oaks are backpacks, sweatshirts, jeans, sneakers, used toilet paper and water bottles filled with urine. Chris Simcox, a small-town newspaper owner, flips through a book he picked out of the refuse titled Aprenda Ingles sin Maestro (Learn English Without a Teacher), shakes his head and says, "Welcome to the invasion...
...Saturdays an elementary school playground fills with stands selling collard greens, turnips and okra organically grown by African-American farmers in Kankakee County, south of Chicago. She and her husband Tracey also began growing vegetables in their backyard, a project that has expanded into a working farm on six vacant lots. Last year they grew 40,000 lbs. of produce...
...Frida Giannini Shoe-In She possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet...
...possesses what may be the fashion industry's top commodity, a knack for creating a must-have. So successful has Frida Giannini been as Gucci's accessories designer, one of many posts left vacant when design deity Tom Ford departed the $2 billion luxury house last year, that she has been tapped to take over the women's ready-to-wear collection. Among Giannini's credentials: five years designing at Fendi and two seasons reinventing Gucci accessories (which make up more than 80% of sales); this spring's floral shoes and next fall's velvet-and-leather Pelham bags...