Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quite a lot of insignificant detail is known about Ribera, especially after he got to Naples. Of more essential matters -- what sort of training he had in Spain, what paintings influenced him as a young man -- little has been found. We know more about his shopping lists than his personality, not because Ribera was self-effacing (you would infer, from the work, a character of singular, even uncomfortable, vividness) but because artists in the 17th century rarely left the paper trail they...
...have explained in detail in the past why Harvard should reject ROTC money. The bottom line is that such money is unabashedly intended for non-gays only, The U.S. military doesn't even hide its blatant discrimination, and Harvard should have no part...
...created by the manufacturer in the enforced absence of information that such implants are safe? When a wife asks her husband how his day went, is he obliged to answer, "Great -- I spent the lunch hour in a motel room with my mistress"? If he does not disclose this detail, is he guilty of lying, or is he -- the cheat -- simply sparing his wife's feelings or avoiding a potentially unpleasant scene...
...past, the tiny scraps of ancient DNA that can be found in mummified tissue would have been far too small to study. But a relatively new genetic- engineering method called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can clone enough copies for scientists to examine the DNA in detail. They can then compare ancient genes to modern ones. That gives researchers another perspective on how evolution has changed a given species, beyond what can be learned by the traditional method of studying changes in body structure...
...cadres -- are still intact. "I don't see them disappearing," says Gorriti. "They're too close to victory for that." Other analysts warn that the October offensive Guzman was plotting at the time of his capture may still take place; Shining Path operations are usually planned out in minute detail months in advance. "Don't think this is the end of the party," Alfredo Crespo, Guzman's lawyer and a leader of the Democratic Lawyers Association, allegedly a Sendero front group, told TIME. "The revolution will continue -- and probably get stronger...