Word: convert
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...alleged that Church Founder Joseph Smith had been led to the Mormon scriptures not by an angel, as Smith had maintained, but by a white salamander, a familiar icon of superstitious folk magic and divining. The letter was purportedly written in 1830 by Martin Harris, an early convert to Mormonism and an associate of Smith's. The document, which fooled two experts on forgeries, was widely published despite church efforts to keep it secret, and caused consternation among the church faithful...
Although only about 15% of Israelis are religiously observant, the state basically follows Orthodox precepts in such matters as marriages and conversions. They insist that a convert's training be supervised by an Orthodox teacher. Accordingly, Interior Minister Peretz told Miller to undergo an Orthodox conversion. She refused and filed suit...
Fearing a court ruling in Miller's favor, Peretz came up with a compromise: he would approve citizenship but mark her identity card JEWISH (CONVERT). That upset not only Miller, who said it would make her a second-class Jew, but also former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He said that reminding a convert of the past was a "reprehensible" violation of religious law. Last month Israel's Supreme Court tossed out Peretz's proposal and ordered that Miller be registered...
...uses of fetal-cell surgery, the most successful to date has been the treatment of Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes. This disease, which afflicts about a million Americans, results from the gradual destruction of small islets of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Without insulin, the body cannot convert sugars into energy. Even with careful diet and daily doses of insulin, Type 1 diabetes can eventually lead to blindness, kidney failure and strokes...
...trying to convert the whole world; we're just trying to help it understand what's happening to it," Jill N. Harrison '90, a Holworthy Hall resident, says...