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...other ceremonial buildings, was the core of a much larger metropolis. Indeed, at 8 sq. mi. and with an estimated population of 150,000, Teotihuacan was the largest city in Mesoamerica in its heyday (about A.D. 500) and one of the six largest in the world--larger even than Rome. Its political power reached all the way to Mayan city-states hundreds of miles away, with outposts as far away as Guatemala...
...rules and procedures that are proving surprisingly effective. The impetus for recent reforms is the awful carnage committed in Rwanda and Bosnia. The U.N. Security Council responded by setting up special-purpose war-crimes tribunals in the Hague and Arusha, Tanzania. Last July, 160 countries sent delegates to Rome to prepare a statute for a permanent international criminal court, and 120 voted for it. The U.S. refused to go along, but nonetheless the new tribunal will come into existence when 60 countries ratify the statute...
...shriveled. But the inclination to get out of town survived. Ancient Rome had its surrounding settlements. Chaucer mentions the 'burbs in The Canterbury Tales. All the same, it wasn't until the later 20th century that suburbia was imagined as the ideal human habitation, an arrangement of houses and lives so fundamental, it was taken for granted that the Flintstones lived there...
...stolen moment of authority for Mary Ramerman, one of many that she has shared with the rebels of Corpus Christi as they stand up to Rome. After joining the church in 1983, the 43-year-old mother of three ministered to her flock, preaching on a weekly basis, hearing confession and presiding at Mass. And though she neither granted absolution nor consecrated Communion, five years ago, the congregation recognized her leadership by vesting her with an alb and a half-stole. It was a gift that unleashed a host of hidden enemies...
...Eucharistic prayer and raised the chalice of wine at the end of the prayer--activities that are the purview of the ordained. For years the Vatican peppered the Bishop of Rochester with complaints about Corpus Christi and probably made its feelings clear during his official visit to Rome this year. The message: Such heresies must not be tolerated. "We in our diocese have a strong commitment to women's participation, but all recognize that's to be done within norms established in our church," says Bishop Matthew Clark. "Unilaterally to go beyond them is not healthy or good...