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| And it is Pope Benedict XVI. Now 82, he's entering the decisive phase of his Papacy and the stakes could not be higher. The issues facing humanity at the end of this decade are existential and it's... | |
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| An early-December tweet by Clay Shirky summed it all up in 140 characters exactly.... (...) | |
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| You know that something has changed when the abbreviation of a word becomes the accepted form of that word. People do not speak of the "application"; they talk about the "app". Apple developed a new... | |
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| "Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for work." The 9/11 Commission Report opens, unusually... | |
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| This image says it all: The horror, the barbarity, the brutality, the savagery, the cruelty and the terror we have been exposed to in the name of God during this decade. Here, members of Hizbul Islam... | |
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| The album of the year? Well, when it comes to originality, nothing held a candle to Manafon by David Sylvian. One of its most captivating tracks is Snow White In Appalachia: "And there's snow on the... | |
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| "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" by Orazio Gentileschi (1563-1639) is one of the most human depictions of the Holy Family ever created. Instead of portraying a standard Nativity scene with shepherds... | |
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| Here's a seasonal verse by the new British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, commissioned exclusively for Radio Times. Rainy Day does not agree with everything expressed in this work, but Duffy is an... | |
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| Christmas looming and you still haven't found the ideal present for little literate Johnny or Jane? How about a book of fairy tales? They always go down a treat, especially when read late at night by... | |
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| Who invited 45,000 "environmentalists" to Copenhagen for a fortnight? How could they all afford to travel to Denmark? Did anyone do their jobs when they were away? What was the size of their... | |
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