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...example, In one selection, God teaches the Mortal about intelligence and free will...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: Mind Games | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

Sister Mary Ignatius (Elizabeth Franz) has taught for many years at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow school. She believes that to spare the rod is to spoil the child, perhaps eternally. Her rod is the catechism. Her prize pupil (Mark Stefan) can make pinpoint distinctions between venial and mortal sins. The sister pops a cookie into his mouth after each impeccable response, and Stefan plays the role with the precision of an ordained parrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Avaunt, God | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Admits Brown's father, former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown: "Anybody would be crazy not to say that Jerry's been wounded. Whether it is mortal or not is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Shoo-in to Scapegoat | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...bomb blast at the Prime Minister's office was a severe, though not necessarily a mortal, blow to the beleaguered regime of the autocratic, 81-year-old Khomeini. But it was the most convincing evidence yet that as Iran's revolution continues to devour itself, the nation may be moving toward civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: A Government Beheaded | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...mortal enemy of the $70 billion American livestock business is the wild coyote. Ranchers claim that last year alone predators-mostly coyotes-marauding from Montana to Texas devoured stray livestock worth $200 million. They have tried fencing off their land, trapping the animals and even shooting them from low-flying airplanes. But ranchers argue these methods always proved unrealistic, inefficient or too expensive. The most effective means of controlling the predators was to scatter animal carcasses laced with a strong poison across pastureland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call of the Wild | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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