Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I would like nothing better than to let the baseball debate die, I am loath to let Khentov ("Further Baseball Debate") have the final word. Khentov, I believe, is a comedian. He has passed off his own invention as a rebuttal to Lev Polinsky's article...
...through. If you go through there is always the risk of remembering your name. Things look at you doubly and you must look back and let them happen. If you do not go through it is possible to live worthily to maintain your attitudes to hold your position to die bravely but much will blind you, much will evade you, at what cost who knows? The door itself makes no promises. It is only a door...
...image not allegedly Christ's, the matter would be relegated to obscure academic journals on Byzantine textile technology. As things stand, however, the conundrum of origin and the slim chance that the scientific dating may have been rigged (not likely) or flawed (a better possibility) are being employed by die-hard shroudies to shore up their hope that their cause is not lost. Faith is ratcheting up the scrutiny on science to unheard-of levels, and the mystified scientists, who considered the case essentially closed, find themselves challenged to make it so airtight that not even a prayer can slip...
...including the flax plants from which the shroud's linen was made. Carbon 14 is unstable and decays over time into another isotope. The amount present in living organisms remains nearly constant because it is continually replaced through the intake of food and air. But when animals and plants die, their level of carbon 14 begins to decrease at a known, fixed rate. Thus the amount of residual carbon 14 in an object provides a measurement...
...ranks of the Khmer Rouge, and See and his family, along with thousands of other inhabitants of the village, fled south, where they found government trucks waiting to drive them to safety. "People were shouting, 'If you move south, you will live--if you move north, you will die...