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...Crowds, in some places five people deep, lined the entire seven-mile route from the airport to the cathedral late Thursday morning. Benedict will visit John Paul's hometown of Wadowice on Saturday, before an open-air mass on Sunday in Krakow, where John Paul served as archbishop, with one million faithful expected to attend. Benedict will close his trip with a solemn visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where the occupying Nazi regime killed some 1.5 million people, most of them Jews. It is a trip that John Paul made on his first return to Poland as Pope...
...There, he made himself into Bob Dylan by reading everything - the poetry of Rimbaud and the Beats, non-fiction on issues of the day - that graced the coffee tables of friends whose living-room couches he crashed on. "I began cramming my brain with all kinds of deep poems," he writes in Chronicles. "It seemed like I'd been pulling an empty wagon for a long time and now I was beginning to fill it up and would have to pull harder." He burrowed into the microfilm files of the New York Public Library to research the social issues...
Almost 70 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, and a former Crimson editor, became alarmed by the worsening polio epidemics that were killing or paralyzing thousands of children and adults in the U.S. each year. The nation was deep into the Depression. Money was desperately needed to provide care for polio patients as well as to support research to find a vaccine against the dreaded disease. Roosevelt knew first-hand the devastation caused by polio—he himself was affected by it in 1921, and never walked unaided again...
...leading Senate plan would allow workers who have been in the country five years to remain as guest workers, on the theory that they have deep ties to their community. Those in the United States two to five years would have to go to a border crossing to apply, and those here less than two years would have to return to their home countries to be considered. Bush has not endorsed particulars, but said in his address to the nation that it makes sense to differentiate between ?an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently, and someone who has worked...
...most serious risk to air travel is a condition known as DVT, or deep-vein thrombosis. DVT is caused by blood clots that form in the legs, pelvis or arms. The clots usually aren't dangerous, but if they break off and lodge in the tiny vessels that feed the lungs or heart, they can be fatal...