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...Editors: Just as Hiroshima was the first city where the Bomb was used, I pray that Nagasaki will be the last [SPECIAL SECTION, July 29]. It will be a victory for mankind if the first and last use of the Bomb occurred 40 years ago, when the Bomb's destructive power was still measured in kilotons and not megatons. Noshir K. Medhora Houston...
There is at once a sense of power, of so many of mankind's aspirations coming to rest on this one person, and a new sense of fragility. The President is a convalescent. The conversation this Thursday morning is about cancer. It is his first press interview since being operated on twelve days earlier...
...shot and mounted and deploy enough hairspray every day to open ozone holes the size of Georgia. Whatever the reason, even after more than a decade of environmental indoctrination on both the West and East Coasts, I still have a tough time working up gut-level outrage over mankind's assault on Mother Nature...
...more incident beyond John Paul's control burnished his aura as someone of more than religious prominence and, indeed, beyond mankind's lower passions. On May 13, 1981, during his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, shots rang out, and he toppled back, his white cassock stained red. Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish rightist and a murderer who had earlier written a letter threatening to kill John Paul, was trying to follow through. The bullet passed within millimeters of a major artery and within inches of several vital organs. "Mary, my mother," John Paul gasped as he collapsed. Doctors...
...originality," which he identified with their God-given role as mothers. He ordered a draft of the English translation of his landmark revision of the church's catechism to be rewritten to remove gender-neutral language. References to "humanity" and "men and women" were out, and back in went "mankind." "Although he was second to none in talking about women and honoring women as mothers and nurturers," says former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, a practicing Catholic, "the flip side is that's not the calling for every woman. And that's where he failed women...