Word: devoutely
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Every few weeks or so, one of the nuns in the study dies, and her gift to science--a beautifully sculpted, convoluted mass of tissue that once embodied a devout mind--arrives at the University of Kentucky, where it is processed, assigned a number and then locked away like a rare book. Each brain is photographed, weighed and sliced into sections. From these sections researchers remove the barest slivers of tissue, which they examine under high-power microscopes. What they are looking for is the freckling of brownish plaques and blackish tangles that are the telltale marks of Alzheimer...
...seventh heaven before the Prophet is ushered into paradise for his encounter with God. It was in heaven, according to one traditional tale, that Muhammad, on Moses' advice, bargained down God's original demand of 50 prayers a day to five, the number of times a day each devout Muslim must face Mecca...
Determined to discover the family's elusive charm, I reached for the nearest concilliari: the On-line Mafia Guide. You could create a small (albeit criminally insane) nation from the number of mafia fans on the web. From "John Gotti's Homepage" to "Gangster Mansion," the devout are eager to share the legacy of "La Cosa Nostra," even with a confessed Irish girl from upstate...
...Simple as that," the Leavitt character notes, "I became an industry," turning out term papers for seven college boys who hear of his service--and his terms--and seek him out anyway. His last client is a devout Mormon named Ben, who is so desperate for a good grade that will get him into law school that he is "willing to do things I'll be ashamed of for the rest of my life." Leavitt perks up at that "things." Ben believes both the cheating and the required method of payment are sins. "After all," Leavitt muses, "none...
...Meili, a devout Protestant who believes that God led him to the documents, made off with two large ledger books and pages from a third. He gave them to a Swiss Jewish organization, which then handed them over to the police. Immediately suspended from his job by the private security firm that employed him, Meili is now being investigated for violating bank-secrecy laws. Bank president Robert Studer insists that no Holocaust-related documents were destroyed but admits that the shredding was "clearly a mistake, and we have to take responsibility for it." Studer, whom a Swiss court found...