The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II has been announced. Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation. She died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, her daughter said. After Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took great risks to help Polish Jews held by the Nazis - an act that was punishable by death. In 1942 Irena Sendlerowa joined the Zegota resistance movement. With the rest of her team of 20, she rescued the children between 1940 and 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, condemning its residents to death.
The death of a Polish woman who almost certainly saved the lives of 2,500 Jewish children during World War II has been announced.
Irena Sendlerowa organised the rescue of the children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
She died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98, her daughter said.
After Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, she took great risks to help Polish Jews held by the Nazis - an act that was punishable by death.
In 1942 Irena Sendlerowa joined the Zegota resistance movement.
With the rest of her team of 20, she rescued the children between 1940 and 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, condemning its residents to death.
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.A little known letter written by him, however, may help to settle the argument - or at least provoke further controversy about his views.Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions".Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt. The letter went on public sale a year later and has remained in private hands ever since.
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.
A little known letter written by him, however, may help to settle the argument - or at least provoke further controversy about his views.
Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions".
Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt. The letter went on public sale a year later and has remained in private hands ever since.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people, discusses the uprising in his native Tibet, why he doesn't support protests against the Olympic torch relay and his proposals for a compromise with Beijing. Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama: "The cultural rights and freedoms must apply to all Tibetans -- as it is stated in the constitution." SPIEGEL: Your Holiness, have you already received your invitation for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing? Dalai Lama: The Chinese have chosen a different option: not to invite me, but to exclude me. And to blame me. Just yesterday, the Tibet Daily in Lhasa wrote some harsh words about me, once again. Your fellow journalists there are very inventive.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people, discusses the uprising in his native Tibet, why he doesn't support protests against the Olympic torch relay and his proposals for a compromise with Beijing.
Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama: "The cultural rights and freedoms must apply to all Tibetans -- as it is stated in the constitution."
SPIEGEL: Your Holiness, have you already received your invitation for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing?
Dalai Lama: The Chinese have chosen a different option: not to invite me, but to exclude me. And to blame me. Just yesterday, the Tibet Daily in Lhasa wrote some harsh words about me, once again. Your fellow journalists there are very inventive.
MUMBAI: Uma Phago has no memory of seeing a human stomach, not even her own. But she remembers very well what a stomach feels like. After her sister gave birth by Cesarean section, Phago ran her curious fingers along the stitched-up abdominal ridge. The sensation never left her mind. In the Indian outsourcing company where she works, her job is to transcribe what American doctors record on their Dictaphones. They send their files at sundown to India, and a team of 5,500 Indians works while the doctors sleep. Every so often, the dictation involves a Cesarean, and Phago's ears perk up with fascination. Phago, one of eight blind workers at CBay Systems, takes longer than most of her colleagues to type up the details. But because she is blind, she seems to get more of a thrill doing it, squeezing from each assignment a quantum of pleasure that is ever rarer in the tedious, soul-deadening world of Indian back offices.
MUMBAI: Uma Phago has no memory of seeing a human stomach, not even her own. But she remembers very well what a stomach feels like.
After her sister gave birth by Cesarean section, Phago ran her curious fingers along the stitched-up abdominal ridge. The sensation never left her mind.
In the Indian outsourcing company where she works, her job is to transcribe what American doctors record on their Dictaphones. They send their files at sundown to India, and a team of 5,500 Indians works while the doctors sleep. Every so often, the dictation involves a Cesarean, and Phago's ears perk up with fascination.
Phago, one of eight blind workers at CBay Systems, takes longer than most of her colleagues to type up the details. But because she is blind, she seems to get more of a thrill doing it, squeezing from each assignment a quantum of pleasure that is ever rarer in the tedious, soul-deadening world of Indian back offices.
The Roman Catholic Church, for centuries a bastion of Latin usage, has given the ancient tongue a 21st Century boost by launching a website in Latin. The Vatican website now has a section - Sancta Sedes (Holy See) - with Latin papal texts and religious works. Pope Benedict XVI is an advocate of Latin, allowing Mass in the language. But when a papal decree was issued only in Latin by mistake last June, there was confusion until the Vatican press office put out an Italian version. "It caused a bit of panic for my colleagues who had no schooling in Latin," said the BBC's Rome correspondent David Willey, "until the official translation finally emerged." The Vatican website already has sections in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
The Roman Catholic Church, for centuries a bastion of Latin usage, has given the ancient tongue a 21st Century boost by launching a website in Latin.
The Vatican website now has a section - Sancta Sedes (Holy See) - with Latin papal texts and religious works.
Pope Benedict XVI is an advocate of Latin, allowing Mass in the language.
But when a papal decree was issued only in Latin by mistake last June, there was confusion until the Vatican press office put out an Italian version.
"It caused a bit of panic for my colleagues who had no schooling in Latin," said the BBC's Rome correspondent David Willey, "until the official translation finally emerged."
The Vatican website already has sections in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish
The current priests, bishops and cardinals Catholics do not know Latin... I think the only one who knows Latin is Benedict XVI: he took the hair to the Cardinals when he spoke to them in Latin, after being elected pope, or when he says Mass in Latin and shoulders. When Procrustes looks after you, you're sure to fit in.
