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...John Paul often reveled--the explosion of priestly vocations in the developing world, which the new Pope said sometimes owes less to faith than to seminarians' quest for material gain and "social promotion" in their villages. If the global south is the church's future, he apparently plans to vet...
DIED. CHARLES CHIBITTY, 83, last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who sent messages for the Allies during World War II; in Tulsa, Okla. "It's strange," said the war vet in 2002. "Growing up as a child I was forbidden to speak my native language at school. Later [it] helped win the war, and that makes me very proud...
...SpongeBob SquarePants. My navigation system, meanwhile, not only can locate the five nearest Chinese restaurants from any point in the continental U.S. but will also remind me that I have a noon dental appointment and that I need to pick up the cat's antifungal cream before the vet closes at 6. Cool? Absolutely. But also utterly distracting...
DIED. JOHN WALTON, 58, entrepreneurial billionaire son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton; after the tiny, home-built plane he was piloting crashed in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. Reluctant to work for the family business, the decorated Vietnam vet launched successful ventures in sailboat building and crop dusting and was a pivotal board member of the Waltons' philanthropic foundation...
...decade of convalescence, navel watching and delayed-stress syndrome. In Soldier's Joy, one veteran of the lost war tries to get another to surrender a rifle after he threatens to shoot himself. The would-be savior complains about the confusion "back in the world," vet talk for home. But he too is deeply disturbed. "You think you've got problems," he says to the distraught man. "There's nothing wrong with you that a little search-and-destroy wouldn't cure...