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...AIRPORTS 28,000 Number of bags put into temporary storage when an automated baggage-handling system malfunctioned during the launch of a modern new terminal at London's Heathrow airport $8.56 billion Cost of the new terminal at Heathrow. During a glitch-filled first four days of operation, nearly 250 flights in and out of the new facility were canceled...
...kind of idealized version of it--a civic model and even an inspiration to his native Europe, whose Muslim immigrants raise the question of religious and political coexistence in the starkest terms. Says David Gibson, author of The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World: "As he tours the U.S., it's important to underscore that his philosophy has more consonances with our culture than meet the eye--some very profound...
...Paul II, who was intellectually and theologically fully formed when he met his first Americans, Ratzinger first observed them when he was 18. As a defeated German soldier, he spent three months in a pow camp but was then allowed to return home and witness one of the great modern acts of charity, the rebuilding of Germany by an occupying force that could just as easily have exacted revenge. Cardinal William Levada, the Californian whom Benedict tapped as his successor at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), says, "He's of a generation that remembers, gratefully...
...hardly the first: John Paul II described faith and reason as the twin wings that lift the church. And yet a balanced takeoff has remained elusive. The U.S. is one of the few places where it seems to happen regularly. "America is simultaneously a completely modern and a profoundly religious place. In the world, it is unique in this," says a senior Vatican official. "And Ratzinger wants to understand how those two aspects can coexist." Almost all the things the Pope likes about us--our faith in the real value of plainspokenness, our pluralistic piety and even our wrangles around...
...change would cut the number of family separations beyond those already compelled by the two wars, Army General Burwell Bell told the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 11. "In 55 years, the Republic of Korea has transformed from a war-ravaged country to one of the most modern, progressive and democratic countries in the world," he said. "Unfortunately, in a modern and vibrant Republic of Korea, the U.S. still rotates service members on one-year, unaccompanied assignments as though this remained an active combat zone...