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big bell
Workers prepare to install a 72-metric tonne church bell in the belfry of at the Trinity Saint Sergius Monastery, Moscow, after a blessing ceremony led by Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II. The Czar Bell will be the biggest ever to ring in Russia. The church is among the holiest sites of the country's dominant Russian Orthodox faith. —AAP
what nxt!
Middlesbrough, in the UK, now has a new icon, a two-tonne, stainless steel beacon, called Spectra-txt, pictured above with the artist Peter Freeman. The 10-metre-high beacon changes colour when one of four text message is sent to it.
strange diet
A German shepherd (dog, that is) has survived an operation to remove 28 golf balls from her stomach. Libby, the shepherd’s owner, couldn’t understand why his dog had gone off her food and was losing weight. She’d swallowed the balls while being walked near the local golf club. “To see all those golf balls at once was a staggering sight. They weighed over 14 kilograms,” said the surprised owner.
zit zapper
Recent studies show that a virus commonly found on skin could kill bacteria responsible for creating acne. Though still in the early stage of development this bacteria-specific virus, called a bacteriophage, could be targeted to combat the acne-causing bacteria.
mini car,
maxi speed
A Belgian motorist has been sent a speeding ticket for travelling at Mach 3—faster than most jet fighters. The ticket claimed he’d been caught doing almost 3000 km/h (2100 mph) in his Mini in a Brussels suburb. Police apologised for the mistake, blaming a faulty radar gun for the cop. They then blamed “human error” for sending out the ticket.
old king-coal
An English builder has won the world coal-carrying title in Yorkshire, UK, for a record-equalling seventh time. Contestants lost all hope of winning after watching the brawny builder carry a 50-kg sack of coal along the one kilometre course in 4 mins 28 secs.
fans-R-us
A group of German soccer fans are renting themselves to various clubs following their own club’s bankruptcy. Members of Fans Without a Club (a translation) are offering any soccer club their chanting and cheering services in exchange for soccerground fare and lubrication. They claim their vocal support can encourage any soccer team to win.
strung up
Police in Canada have charged a man with careless driving after catching him playing a violin while driving to Toronto on a main highway. The cavalier 52-year-old musician claimed he was “warming up” for the concert to which he was headed.
“‘Kill the Jews wherever you find them. Kill them with your arms, with your hands, with your nails and teeth.’ So spake Jordan’s King Hussein in his last radio broadcast before the cease-fire during the recent Arab– Israeli conflict now referred to as the ‘six-day war,’” quoted the Signs editorial, October 1967. It went on: “Malcolm Hews . . . commented in the Manchester Guardian Weekly, ‘Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Palestine affair may be, there can be no answer to it until the Arabs have learnt to face unpleasant realities and to control their . . . desire for vengeance.’”
And, it is obvious, hate and death still characterise the region 37 years on. But, as you’ll discover in “The Middle East Quagmire” (page 26), little has changed in the millennia since Abraham, his wife Sarah and her Egyptian slave laid the foundation for this conflict of brothers in a gross act of spiritual faithlessness.
Sources: www.ananova.com, www.theage.com.au, AAP, www.bbc.co.uk
Extract from Signs of the Times, August 2004.
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