Word: teresas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets. In central Londonderry, every other street corner seems to house the offices of some worthy center dispensing advice, trying to foster peace. Teresa McKeever, the manager of a parent-and-toddler association in Creggan, a Catholic district in Londonderry, brings mothers and children from her area to join in a weekend in the country with mothers and kids from Tullyally, a Protestant area. The talk is generally nonpolitical, but, says McKeever...
...information she couldn't find in her hometown of Newark, Ohio. "It was really hard for me at first after surgery," Denhardt says. "I had memory problems. I lost my hearing, and some of my face atrophied. Doctors don't tell you about things like that." When her daughter Teresa moved home to help, she introduced her mom to the Internet. Denhardt searched the Web, learning about new drugs and joining online support groups that allowed her to communicate directly with people around the world who have the same condition. "I've talked to people from Japan, Sweden, Germany, England...
...whom the gods would humble they first make the center of a global advertising campaign. Beyond Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela, few humans have recently come closer to sainthood-by-acclaim than the Dalai Lama. Revered as a Buddha of compassion by his followers, Tibet's political and religious leader garnered not only a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts on behalf of his Chinese-occupied homeland but also (as the Apple Computer ads strove to exploit) the vague undifferentiated goodwill of a cynical and overcaffeinated world still auditioning sources of truth, calm and peace...
...women appeared on the covers you selected. Out of 89 covers, there were eight featuring identifiable women. "Let's see," we could tell our daughters, "you could be a glamorous sex symbol (Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna or 'All-American Model' Cheryl Tiegs), a 'Living Saint' (Mother Teresa), an outlaw (the fictional Thelma or Louise) or a princess (Diana, of course)." Thank goodness for Jackie Joyner-Kersee. BARBARA HEALY SMITH Milton, Mass...
...birth. The works on display are studies for some of Bernini's most important projects, including the design for the sculptural decoration for the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the Tiber River bridge for pilgrims approaching St. Peter's Basilica and the architectural and sculptural setting for the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa...