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Bloodstained shirt: JPII relics abound

  • Frances D’emilio, Associated Press
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ROME (AP) — Inside a chapel on the edge of Rome, a nun uses a key to open a wooden wall panel, revealing a hidden niche. Behind glass and stitched loosely to supporting backing hangs a relic of holy suffering: the bullet-pocked, bloodstained undershirt that John Paul II was wearing when a gunman shot him in the stomach in St. Peter’s Square.

Here comes El Nino; good news for US weather woes
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Here comes El Nino; good news for US weather woes

  • SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal forecasters predict a warming of the central Pacific Ocean this year that will change weather worldwide. And that’s good news for a weather-weary United States.

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Seattle okays Amazon globes

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SEATTLE (AP) — City planners have approved the plans for three large globes that will be part of the new headquarters for Amazon.com in downtown Seattle.