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Peter Penz, front, and Georg Fischler, both of Austria speed down the ice channel during the doubles luge World Cup race in Altenberg, Germany, on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012. They placed second.


Benedict told a crowd of Romans and tourists that selfishness ''triggers emptiness" in people, families, nations and the world, and he warned against ''false remedies," including drug use" to fill these voids. He said that the ''poisonous root of selfishness" makes people harm themselves and others.