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...tribal areas. Unemployment among the population of 3.5 million hovers around 70%. Two-thirds live below the poverty line. Only 6% of inhabitants can read. For women it's less than 1%. "Given that kind of environment; it's not likely that you will see a Leonardo da Vinci come up," says Aziz, who now heads the Regional Institute of Policy Research and Training in Peshawar. "You'll get an Osama or one of his clones instead." Aziz welcomes the U.S. Administration's promise of $750 million to provide economic development in the area but says it is not enough...
...VATICAN bans DA VINCI CODE prequel from filming in Rome churches...
Benedict pointedly called it a "scandal" that a majority of us favor even limited legalized abortion. Yet we're not the Da Vinci Code heretics the Vatican suspects. We look instead to the Boccaccio Code, especially in the wake of the abuse crisis. We've learned to conform to the Catholic faith instead of the Catholic hierarchy. And if the Pope's visit and its aftermath indicate anything, it's that we aren't likely to change that stance until the church, with deeper structural and doctrinal reform, changes its own. As the Pope returns to Rome, a common question...
...Witchery also has seven luxurious suites stuffed with antiques, draped beds and claw-footed baths made for two. Author Dan Brown, who set part of The Da Vinci Code at the nearby Rosslyn Chapel, was so enchanted with his stay a few years ago that he scribbled his signature on a floorboard under a rug in the Armoury suite, then left a cryptic clue leading to it in the guest book. The puzzle has long been solved, but it's a fitting tribute to the Witchery's mysterious charms. www.thewitchery.com
...have suspended a 1929 Fiat Hydroplane above one room and surrounded it with second-wave Futurist canvases from the same period. Their gravity-defying shapes were intended to celebrate aeronautical motion, but these paintings lack the meticulous artistry that characterized their forerunners. Still, almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci conceived the world's first flying machine, this gallery is a shrine to Italy's aircraft industry, which flourished in the 1930s, sustained by Fascism's colonial ambitions...