If only the mortal world of international relations were so far-sighted.

ECONOMIST: Pakistan

They had each taken many mortal lovers, but had cast them off before they could become old or infirm, and all their previous changelings had stayed healthy until they were returned, unaged and unstuck from their proper times, to the mortal world.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

Why is it inconceivable that his campaign cannot break out into the brick and mortal world?

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The real question is how did Twitter, with 7x fewer users than Facebook, so easily double Facebookon that important metric this year when both management teams equally saw the way the world was moving long before us mortal folks realized what was going on?

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In between, we travel to Cittagazze, the world where children are safe but adults are in mortal danger, and meet the witches' flying goose.

ECONOMIST: New theatre

He had imagined himself as a boy winning the World Series, throwing the perfect pass, saving his favorite teachers from mortal peril.

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