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Gabriel I. Chodorow-Reich ’05, an avid “Simpsons” watcher, saw the show but didn’t get the joke. “I didn’t catch the reference,” he said...
...early--and active--front runner is the Archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi. His transfer a year ago from the helm of the Genoa Archdiocese to the world's largest one, in Milan, was akin to winning a party's nomination. "He's a natural candidate," says longtime Vatican watcher Luigi Accattoli of Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera. Tettamanzi, 69, stands out in the pack because he is favored by the Italian Cardinals, who are eager to take back the papacy...
...early - and active - front-runner is the Archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi. His transfer a year ago from the helm of the Genoa Archdiocese to the world's largest one, in Milan, was akin to winning a party nomination. "He's a natural candidate," says longtime Vatican watcher Luigi Accattoli of Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera. Tettamanzi, 69, stands out in the pack because he is favored by the Italian Cardinals, who are eager to take back the papacy. Short, pudgy and quick to smile, the Milan leader has few enemies - a miraculous accomplishment in Vatican circles...
...fact, the two cases are wildly unalike. As Chicago economist and China watcher David Hale points out, there was never a constituency in the U.S. to defend Japan because American companies felt (with some reason) that they could neither sell nor invest there. China could not be more different. Not only are hundreds of American companies investing in plants in China, but they are also diving into the growing Chinese market for consumer goods as if it were going out of style. U.S. firms like Motorola, General Motors and Procter & Gamble can't wait to sell their cell phones, cars...
Scientists have known for 200 years that the temperature in a city can be higher than that in its environs--something they learned when an amateur weather watcher detected a 1.58F temperature difference between London and its suburbs. Modern cities, with their cars and heat-trapping buildings, can create an even bigger temperature gap, sometimes as much as 10?...