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Thailand’s Blue Diamond Affair Still Angers Saudi Arabia
Two decades ago, a Thai gardener climbed into the palace of a Saudi prince through a second-story window, busted open a safe with a screwdriver and stole some 200 pounds of jewelry.
Religion: Council of Renewal
A fortnight hence in the Vatican, 2,600 bishops of the Roman Catholic Church will meet in a gathering so rare that only 20 others like it have been convened in the 20 centuries of Christian history. The purpose of the Second Vatican Council is what His Holiness Pope John XXIII, who has the Catholic prelate's traditional wariness of words that suggest drastic change, calls an aggiornamento—a modernization.
Study: PTSD Survivors’ Children May Have Genetic Scars
The Holocaust is a crime that never seems to quit.
Books: View from the Big House
FALCONER by JOHN CHEEVER 211 pages. Knopf
Abortion the Future Is Already Here
JUST BECAUSE ABORTION IS LEGAL in Illinois doesn’t mean that Sheela Paine can easily get one.
Box Office: How Rio Made Madea Mad
Birds of a feather flock to Rio, and so do audiences everywhere. Fox’s 3-D animated carnival, the high flyer at last week’s box office, saw nothing but blue skies its second time around; it earned $26.8 million, according to early studio estimates, to win the Easter weekend at North American movie theaters.
Russian Orphans in U.S.: When Adopted Kids Can’t Adapt
As their mom Marianne cut up celery and opened a tub of hummus, the three Massi boys alternately darted and drifted through the kitchen. In between snacking, one took the two family dogs into the backyard to play.
Tallying Biofuels’ Real Environmental Cost
The promise of biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil. Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the U.S.
Japan: Second Blast at Nuclear Power Plant Injures Workers
For the second time in three harrowing days, a hydrogen explosion at one of Japan’s crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant blew the roof off a containment building — this time on Monday morning at reactor unit No.