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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Athens, where Pope John Paul begins a three-nation pilgrimage tomorrow following the journeys of St. Paul the Apostle. It will be the first visit to Greece by a pope since the Great Schism that split Christianity into eastern and western branches in the year 1054. The population of Greece is overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian. A spokesman says the Greek Orthodox Church wants the pope to make what he called a humble and bold gesture of love to help heal the deep distrust between the Orthodox world and Roman Catholic world. After Greece, the pontiff will visit Syria and Malta.

Between 1965 and 1975 the divorce rate doubled. According to one survey -- a third of young adults say they're parents divorced before they turned 18. For 30-year-olds, to be a child of divorce was -- for the first time -- not unusual. It has influenced their childhoods and the ways that they make decisions about their adult lives.

The United States Army will load its M-16 rifles with a new kind of ammunition -- bullets that are lead-free. Noah Adams talks with Michael Dette, chief of technology demonstration at the Army Environmental Center in Aberdeen, Maryland.

People who are 30-year-olds this year were part of the first generation to learn about AIDS at the same time as they were learning about sex. NPR's Jason Beaubien has this report about four 30-year-olds from the Boston area, who reflect on coming of age in the shadow of AIDS.

The events All Things Considered reported for the past 30 years entered the consciousness of 30-year-olds. We asked a number of them to remember major news events.

Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is 30. She introduces a song off her new album, Reckoning/Revelling, that is about living the last 30 years. (1:30) Reckoning/Revelling by Ani DiFranco is on Righteous Babe Records.

Many 30-year-olds cite one movie as the most influential of their childhood: Star Wars. Novelist Silas House explains how Star Wars changed his life.

For today's 30-year-olds, the music of the 1980s was the soundtrack of their teen years. Joshua Levs of WABE in Atlanta counts himself as a member of Generation X. He has this look at the music of the '80s.

Thirty-year-olds talk about the television shows they remember best, including re-runs of The Brady Bunch.

1.2 billion of the world's six billion people live on less than a dollar a day, according to the World Bank's annual report on global development, released today. Sub-Saharan Africa is suffering the world's most dire poverty, while conditions in East Asian and Pacific nations are improving. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.