Word: appealing
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...exhibit, notes Museum of Natural History curator Craig Morris, combines art with science to highlight the objects' aesthetic appeal and at the same time emphasize modern archaeological techniques. "Each piece must be understood in relationship to everything else," he explains. Alva and his team made sure that the position of the items in each grave was recorded and analyzed. An ornament in closest proximity to the body, for example, had the greatest symbolic significance and conveyed the role of the person in the highly organized Moche society...
While gays see themselves as fighting for equal rights, opponents often characterize what is at stake as "special rights," a tacit appeal to the backlash generated by affirmative-action programs for blacks and women. Roy Schmidt, city commissioner of Grand Rapids, Michigan, voted this year against an ordinance adding gays to the existing civil rights code. He insists, "I have no problem with the gay community or gay people. My beliefs aren't based on bigotry or ignorance. But you could take it further and say fat people, prostitutes or left-handed people deserve their own protections." Like many people...
...lesbian regained custody of her son in a Virginia State verdict that could make sexual orientation less relevant to parental fitness. An appeals court judge returned 24-year-old Sharon Bottoms' 3-year-old son a year after another state judge decided she was an unfit mother because she and her live-in lover engaged in oral sex. The judge in the earlier case called the act a "crime against nature." That ruling sent the child to his maternal grandmother Kay, who now plans an appeal. "I think it's a tragedy . . . to put him back in that environment...
...Ayckbourn, the fleeting Chicago visit had special sentimental appeal because it involved his Scarborough troupe in their second U.S. appearance ever and first since 1981. For his fans, Communicating Doors marks an end to a period when his works grew darker and darker, to the point that they could scarcely be called comedies. "This is intentionally lighter," Ayckbourn says of his souffle of time travel, murder, melodrama and bedroom farce. "It's also meant to be affirmative after things have grown steadily worse in Britain under governments that seem not to care...
Judge Zilly's ruling heartened gay-rights activists. "Change in this policy is inevitable," said Joseph Steffan, whose 1987 expulsion from the U.S. Naval Academy on similar grounds was overturned by an appeals court late last year. "The only question is when, and decisions like this lead to the conclusion that it may be sooner rather than later." The military itself seems torn about whether to appeal the Cammermeyer verdict. "We have to press ahead," said one official. "If we let this decision stand . . . we'd be barred from enforcing our own policy." Yet Pentagon spokesman Dennis Boxx was more...