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...Most days this gathering in Conyers, 20 miles southeast of Atlanta, numbers a few dozen. But if it is the 13th of the month, the count may swell as high as 20,000, as travelers from across the country arrive to see the monthly visions of Christ and the Virgin Mary. "We thought we would come just for the blessings, not necessarily to be healed," says Karen Horne of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who has lived with multiple sclerosis for 17 years and been in a wheelchair for the past five. Duquelia Dickerson of Tampa, Florida, is hoping for something more...
...additional 45 minutes pass, then shouts erupt. Necks crane toward a small, bright cloud that has formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
...years ago, in a talk with TIME, he used almost exactly the same words. And so one is left with the noble, and slightly poignant, image of a restless, ambitious, complex man trying and trying for simplicity. "There's a line in Turgenev," he says, "in Virgin Soil, that absolutely haunts me. It's a suicide note, and the entire note is, 'I could not simplify myself.' What an arrow through the heart...
...right, there were a few certifiable trendlets in '92 -- inflatable bikinis, Virgin Mary sightings, potato-spelling jokes -- but most were too sickly and feeble to grow. Divorcing one's parents looked big for a week or so, sparking hopes of a real estate boom as 10-year-olds sought their own condos. Menopause mania proved to be a flash, so to speak, in the pan, and "smart drugs" couldn't compete with the far more numerous dumb ones...
...YEAR COVERS OVER THE PAST TWO decades have been a fairly eclectic mix of both the sacred (Mother Teresa, the Virgin Mary) and the profane (Big Cars, Bart Simpson). Breaking news provided the selections in between. This year our cover is temporal . . . that is, scientific, but with God undeniably in the details. It is a rigorous examination of how science and religion are intersecting at the end of the century, how the achievements of modern science just might be reinforcing religious faith rather than undermining it. To pull off such a challenging assignment, we chose Robert Wright, a science writer...