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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biblical account of the Exodus does not answer a tantalizing question. Why did Moses turn right when he reached the Sinai, taking his flock on an arid, roundabout 40-year odyssey, instead of heading directly along the Mediterranean coast to the promised land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why Moses Went the Long Way | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Tourists flock to the Italian galleries, but they don't seem to get crowded. The religious subjects inspire silence. There is little alternative to the countless Madonnas, Annunciations, and Saint Sebastians; those with a low tolerance for Renaissance art may lose patience quickly in Florence...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: A Portrait of the Art Student | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...Tourists flock to the Italian galleries, but they don't seem to get crowded. The religious subjects inspire silence. There is little alternative to the countless Madonnas, Annunciations, and Saint Sebastians; those with a low tolerance for Renaissance art may lose patience quickly in Florence...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Save Money; Take the Bus | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

Down on Memorial Drive, in the parking lot of an abandoned plant store, they're saving souls. Reverend Ezra has set up a tent, and in the heat of the evening he's hard at the work of the Lord. The members of his flock fan themselves with their programs, but he's just warming up. Finishing the call to worship, he launches into his sermon with a great whirling of arms and stamping of feet. It's a story of good men gone bad and bad men gone good, and others who stayed that way. The drug dealer with...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The City in the Off Season | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...Pope admitted to Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki when the two met that his appeal for peace was the central reason he included Japan on his grueling twelve-day Asian trip. Japan has only a tiny Roman Catholic flock (406,000 people out of 117 mil lion) and, like the weather, the crowds were cool after the exuberance of the Philippines. But, if anything, the absence of roaring throngs and John Paul T shirts seemed to heighten the seriousness of the Pope's message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pilgrim for Peace | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

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