Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alan Adler, an emeritus professor at Western Connecticut State University who has worked on the shroud, takes this possibility very seriously. "The sample used for dating," he asserts, "came from an area that is water-stained and scorched, and the edge is back-woven, indicating repair"--not from a clean portion, as the dating team insists. Adler says that infrared spectroscopy indicates that the sample's threads differ from those in the rest of the shroud. That doesn't guarantee, he hastens to acknowledge, that the sample was insufficiently testable and representative. But to be sure, he says, "you need...
...colony evokes the dusty, wood-ridden, disorganized towns of the Wild West glorified in the Western film genre. However, the colony also reminds us that these towns constituted an actual frontier for the colonists, a territory uncharted for them in which to institute their conception of civilization from a clean slate. The inter-actions between the Americans of the Archbuilder colony seem so elemental, summon such basic dilemmas and yield such unproductive results that the reader can only wonder why the Wild West was not indeed wilder...
...human element are precious. The people he interviews while they are eating dinner at The Hearty Platter make rather simplistic economic comments, but they're obviously in bad shape; and it's not really their fault. A band of welfare mothers march into the Milwaukee State House, offering to clean the governor's office as an illustration of their eagerness to work. One mother recites the government retraining programs that have left her as unemployed as when she began. This is real, and hearing it from the mouths of real people rather than from Democrats is indispensable...
...this a local problem or indicative of a campuswide epidemic? Consider the explosion of "Goldeneye," the Nintendo game which has everybody from C.S. to the A.D. staying in on the weekend just to blow away the bad guys. Stepping into James' squeaky-clean shoes and kicking some evil arss is a classy way to spend an evening. Unlike its futuristic precursor "Doom," "Goldeneye" includes a final level in which James graphically seduces a Russian double agent. Haven't gotten there? Keep playing...
...Some in the Cambodian military think current Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok had his old rival murdered to take the heat off his embattled guerrilla group. And at least one of Pol Pot's captors has seen the death as a way to wash his hands: "We are clean now," said his jailer, Nuon Nou. So is the U.S., Thailand and Singapore -- a tribunal might have brought to light just how much they helped him evade capture...