John Paul II closes door on Holy Year
Pope John Paul II formally ends the Holy Year by shuting the bronze Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica after a mass crowd of about 100,000 in St. Peter's Square. He urged believers to look ahead as the door is bricked until the next Jubilee in 2025.
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Milestones Across World History Cited by Year
Timeline notes key events: 1927 NY London trans Atlantic telephone link opens. 1942 Bataan siege begins. 1953 Truman declares hydrogen bomb development. 1955 Marian Anderson debuts at the Met in Verdi. 1959 US recognizes Castro regime in Cuba. 1972 Powell and Rehnquist sworn Supreme Court justices. 1979 Phnom Penh falls to Vietnamese forces. 1989 Hirohito dies. Akihito succeeds.
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Former FDA official urges breakup of tobacco firms
Former FDA commissioner David Kessler argues in a new book that the tobacco industry should be dismantled and cigarettes sold in brown paper wraps by a congress chartered and tightly regulated company. He says the industry’s infrastructure must not continue to exist even with strong future regulations.
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