Word: belief
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What may have happened, suggests Tattersall, is that some 50,000 years after modern humans arose, we began using our brains in a fundamentally different way. Despite their burials, for example, the Neanderthals left no clear evidence of any ritual or any belief in an afterlife. Nor is there any hint of Neanderthal language. Most telling of all, Homo sapiens began, some 40,000 years ago, to create art in an astonishing variety of forms, including cave paintings and female statuettes...
...nuanced campaign involving tactics as simple as knocking down walls--literally--in field offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Nonetheless, it has caused a tectonic change in how police around the country view gun crime. Now police routinely ask a basic question that, contrary to popular belief, they used to ask only rarely: Where did the bad guys get their guns...
...survey results indicate that Orfield is not the only person who holds that belief. 80 percent of the survey's respondents support maintaining or strengthening existing minority admissions policies...
...survey results indicate that Orfield is not the only person who holds that belief. 80 percent of the survey's respondents support maintaining or strengthening existing minority admissions policies...
...great difficulty concentrating," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "And the fact that he has failed to prepare an heir has the Israelis and Americans very worried." Western governments have tended to turn a blind eye to rampant corruption and authoritarianism in Arafat?s Palestinian Authority, in the belief that he is the sole guarantor of the peace process. But that may turn out to have been a risky gambit as Arafat?s political support among Palestinians declines along with his health...