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...more liberal congregations, heaven is found mostly in hymns, preserved like a bug in amber. There are still some churches where one can find a robust heavenly vision in the late 1990s--among Southern Baptists, and African-American denominations as a whole. But most late-20th century American Christians, observes Jeffrey Burton Russell, have a better grasp of heaven's cliches than of its allures. "It's this place where you've got wings, you stand on a cloud, and if the concept is more sophisticated, where you see God and you sing hymns. It's a boring place...
...kind of literary writing," he claims. Yet literary writing seems only fit for Clark, who describes the conception of this novel in terms of the imagery of its opening scene--"a train, and a man in this train, speeding along in the bitter winter in an amber light...
...Georgia N. Alexakis, Courtney A. Coursey, David A. Fahrenthold, Matthew W. Granade, Ayanna A. Lonian, William P. Moynahan, Valerie J. MacMillan, Andrew K. Mandel, Amber L. Ramage, Joshua H. Simon, Baratunde R. Thurston, Kelly M. Yamanouchi and Elizabeth S. Zuckerman contributed to the reporting of this story...
Where do we think yellow is going?" The captain of the Color Directions workshop scanned the faces of her troops intently. It was time to commit, to make sense of hundreds of amber and gold chips and swatches that lay strewn about the polished tabletop like autumn leaves on black pond ice. This was it--crunch time. Whither yellow...
...study, based on a new analysis of fossil sites, has created a tempest in the paleontological community. Now researchers not only must explain how a single prehuman population could remain frozen in evolutionary amber for so long after its species went extinct elsewhere in the world, but also must revisit two of science's most hotly debated questions: Where on the habitable continents did modern humans first emerge, and how did they come to dominate the world? "These dates will stir up a lot of controversy," says geochronologist Carl Swisher of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in Berkeley, California, who headed...