Word: pauling
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...funding for the $10 million to $20 million instrument must first be found before astronomers can search the skies, said project proponent Paul Goldsmith of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst...
Pope John Paul II, who was born in Poland, has called for "vigilance," warning that "conflicts between ethnic minorities can be rekindled and nationalistic feelings can be exacerbated." The European Community, Japan and the U.S. can help relieve the ethnic pressures with economic cooperation and technical-aid programs. At a two-day meeting in Paris last week, representatives of 27 Western nations laid the groundwork for a $12 billion development bank to channel loans to emerging private businesses in the Warsaw Pact countries. But money without artful diplomacy will not completely exorcise the ghostly rivalries that increasingly haunt Eastern Europe...
Blades blames "ignorance and fear" for the gulf that persists between Latins and Anglos. "Paul Simon is doing an album in Spanish, and Ronstadt and Los Lobos just did albums in Spanish, so what's the big deal?" asks Blades, who eschews the term crossover to describe such projects. "It implies an acceptance of a barrier," Blades explains, "and I refuse to acknowledge a barrier. I think the barriers are in the mind and in the heart. People tell me, 'You close your eyes, and you're too idealistic,' and I have to say no. In all honesty, I never...
...group trying to reestablish a cooperative is not affiliated with St. Paul's parish. The volunteers have been actively involved in other local programs to help the homeless...
...could accuse Pope John Paul II of being soft on celibacy. The Roman Pontiff frowns upon even hypothetical discussions about relaxing the church's centuries-old ban on married priests. Yet this is the same Pope who in 1980 approved an experiment in which 43 married men have become Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. The most recent was ordained in New York just last week. (Some 20 married converts have become priests elsewhere in the West since Pope Pius XII allowed the first such dispensation in 1951.) Although church officials have sought to avoid publicity about the unusual American...