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...between the authorities and society," he concluded with a tribute to seven miners who were killed during a confrontation with the police at a nearby mine during the opening days of martial law. Said John Paul solemnly: "Let us remember all the deceased workers, those who were victims of mortal accidents in the mines or in other places, those who lost their lives in the recent tragic events. All of them...
...around the corner, the pale of face throughout the Northern Hemisphere will soon be hitting beaches in pursuit of a deep, dark and sexy tan. The Victorian ideal of delicate, camellia-white skin has long since been supplanted by the bronzed-god look. But the trend has taken a mortal toll. Sun-related skin cancer is rapidly on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and afflicting younger and younger people. The incidence of the most lethal form, malignant melanoma, though less directly linked to sunshine, has jumped tenfold in the past 20 years. Last week some 300 dermatologists...
...author was arrested for writing letters criticizing Stalin and sentenced to hard labor in the Gulag. "I was eight years in camp and that, of course, induced a lot of thought. I met a great many Orthodox and had a lot of discussions with them. After that, I was mortally ill in camp, and, faced with that mortal illness, I found anew my faith...
...playwright's fascinations--time. The theory of time presented in the play belongs to philosopher J. W. Dunne who, according to Priestly, oposits that each person is "a series of observers in a corresponding series of times." Ordinarily, people can only perceive the present, through the eyes of their mortal identity. But occasionally humans transcend this limitation. Thus when we see the future in dreams, we are looking through the eyes of an observer in some future time. Similarly, within the play, one of the characters is treated to two distinct temporal visions of her life. Act II, which takes...
Toeing the Reagan line and keeping up appearances as a feminist would seem to be mutually exclusive tasks for mere mortal women. Nevertheless. Heckler has been trying since 1979, hop-scotching on issues like the Squeal Rule, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the effects of Reagan's budget cuts on women, and doing what political writer Charles Pierce of the Boston Phoenix calls "the abortion tapdance." According to Joshua Resnek, her former campaign press secretary. Margaret Heckler put Pierce at the top of her list of reporters not to be talked to--right after Chris Black, the Boston Globe...