Word: bents
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...said. “This was a conscious and deliberate attempt to perpetrate a hoax.” Barrow said that the faculty members should not have told the press about the student’s story before verifying it, and he said that their behavior demonstrated an ideological bent in addition to poor judgment. This incident, Barrow said, was another example of “a faculty culture that seems…continually on the edge of hysteria, constantly predisposed to embrace these kinds of incidents at face value.” But Williams said that he and Pontbriand...
...Barrow said that the faculty members should not have told the press about the student’s story before verifying it, and he said that their behavior demonstrated an ideological bent in addition to poor judgment. This incident, Barrow said, was another example of “a faculty culture that seems…continually on the edge of hysteria, constantly predisposed to embrace these kinds of incidents at face value...
...articles advocating intelligent design is often sophisticated, academic, even scientific.Behe used language such as “irreducibly complex,” “subcellular compartments,” and “ultrasophisticated molecular machines” in an article in Natural History magazine.Edwards attributes the academic bent of intelligent design’s verbiage to the fact that scientific arguments are seen as more credible. “They’re paying homage to science,” Edwards says. “They’ve got to have their own science and they?...
...people you find they're not that much different." A sense of the common humanity that links different cultures infuses "Face of Asia," an exhibition of his pictures from Afghanistan, Cambodia, India and Tibet, the first show at Asia House's new London HQ. When he photographed a bent-backed Indian woman (Brindavan, 1995), she invited him home for tea and told him how she'd lived her whole life on charity, praying for others. Wading through floods in India put him on a level with a smiling man holding a precious sewing machine out of the water (Porbandar...
...seven penalties for 14 minutes, including four in the second period. Even when BC wasn’t inviting whistles, the Eagles were delivering heavy body checks against Harvard. Freshmen defenseman Brian McCafferty seemed to be BC’s favorite target, absorbing two big hits that had him bent over on the bench for several minutes. “The one play [McCafferty] got banged up on, I thought he never touched the puck,” Donato said. “I didn’t think it was a clean hit.” But the Crimson...