Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David's feelings for Ted, in fact, bordered on worship. He was particularly smitten by Ted's belief that modern man was being corrupted by society in general and technology in particular. "Knowing him as I do," Ted writes, "I am certain that if Dave had known of the Unabomber before 1989"--the year David moved in with Linda Patrik--"he would have regarded him as a hero...
...greater than the aesthetic or moral shock of the exhibit may be its political repercussions. Here New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has raised a stink of his own. The mayor cut the museums municipal funding of $7 million annually, citing his belief that public funding should not subsidize the establishment or desecration of religion...
...effects of aging and brain diseases. While it is not known what function the new cells serve, one theory builds on research done by Rockefeller University's Fernando Nottebohm, who found evidence that the brain generates new cells to record events into memory, as opposed to the long-held belief that memories are formed solely through connections of existing neurons. Nottebohm's theory buttresses the notion that decreased production of brain cells as we age helps explain lapses in short-term memory ? and, conversely, that if brain cell growth can be increased then short-term memory can be improved...
...common supposition is that if Klebold and Harris could only have been as pious and God-fearing as Cassie, or at least had been pressured to be so in their schools, their homicidal tendencies would have been replaced by religious fervor. If Cassie were not killed for her belief in God, the lesson is entirely changed...
...experts speculated might have been written by one of the parents, reported multiple disappearances of Mr. Ramsey on the night of the murder and the fact that the family was permitted to wander freely throughout the house, after the police arrived, on the night JonBenet was killed. The overwhelming belief that the parents had something to do with their daughter's demise led to accusations that Boulder County D.A. Alexander Hunter is shielding the well-to-do ? and well-connected ? Ramseys from the brunt of the investigation. The grand jury, however, could find nothing with which to nail them...