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Being a Christian Scientist has never been easy. The Boston-based religion denies the reality of material existence, which means that sin, evil and disease are not real, either. One consequence of this metaphysical view is the famous Christian Science practice of shunning medical treatment. The belief has also led to a growing number of prosecutions of devout parents who have denied the use of lifesaving measures to their critically ill children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tumult in The Reading Rooms | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...Cardinal Sin...

Author: By Dan Jacobowitz and Jay K. Varma, S | Title: Top-Rated Giardi Unlikely Against Rams on Saturday | 10/11/1991 | See Source »

...Rockpile--at 1500 Broadway, Rt. 99 in Saugus. On Friday: Sin-a-men Gypsy. On Saturday: The Stompers. 18 and over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clubs | 10/3/1991 | See Source »

...little later, in a semipolitical setting, television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, confessing to a sin or two here and there, employed the same strategy but different tactics, opting for all-out bawling on camera. And, just as it worked for the fictional Elmer Gantry, so, in a rare case of art imitating art, it rewarded Elmer's analogue in real life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men, Women And Tears | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...emergency came truly home to Western Europe. After the fourth attempt by the 12-nation European Community to arrange a cease-fire fell apart almost instantly, the U.N. Security Council considered an attempt at peacekeeping. There may be little time to waste. An old infection -- Europe's original sin of tribalism -- is once again raging out of control in the Balkans. Since the Continent's nationalist frenzies had drawn the U.S. into two world wars during this century, Washington sat up and took sharp notice as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia The Flash of War | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

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