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...final pieces he wrote for the New York Times before he died last October, celebrated reporter and U.S.-based gourmet R.W. Apple Jr. listed 10 restaurants worth boarding a plane to visit. When my editors at TIME recently asked for ideas for stories on food and the way it influences societies around the world, I ambitiously suggested I visit Apple's favorites. Such a device would allow me to write about our obsession with finding great food in obscure places, I explained, while celebrating the life of one of the best writers on food of recent years-a global connoisseur...
...Gates was in town to visit three high schools in the city's South Side, and check up on an investment. Since 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $66 million to improve Chicago schools, including $21 million last year alone on the city's new High School Transformation program. Two of the three schools on the day's agenda had embarked on this transformation...
Pope John Paul II was the first pontiff ever to visit Brazil, and he was hugely popular here. But each time he visited his adoring flock, he came in the knowledge that his Church was losing followers and influence at a frightening rate. Between 1980 and 2000, the proportion of Catholics in the world's largest Catholic country fell from...
...Still, on the eve of his successor's first trip to Brazil - Benedict XVI touches down in Sao Paulo on Wednesday for a five-day visit - there is some encouraging news for the Holy See. New figures show that the exodus of worshipers to Protestantism has stopped. Government census data show that in 2003 73.8% of Brazilians declared themselves Catholics, almost exactly the same number (73.9%) as three years earlier. The number of Protestants did rise to 17.9% from 16.2%, but those joining Protestant denominations, rather than disaffected Catholics, were unhappy followers of other religions or people who had previously...
Recently, however, the question of “how I spent my time at Harvard” was posed very starkly by the visit of a good friend from home. Reed—a humorous, free-spirited guy, not currently in school—had never before set foot on Harvard’s campus. Besides visiting me, he wanted to see “what Harvard is all about...