Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly after the shooting, anonymous callers telephoned TV stations to warn that more police officials would be harmed if the investigation of Aum was not called off. But if the assault was meant to intimidate authorities, there were no signs of anyone backing off. All week investigators continued to dig into the cult's compounds in a rural village near Mount Fuji. According to a police spokesman, the investigators were gathering evidence that sect leaders planned to make poison gas "in preparation for murder,'' the closest that authorities have come to implicating Aum. Police unearthed tons of suspect chemicals, drugs...
...point of this exercise is simply to complicate--mainly by arbitrarily withholding vital information--what is, in its emotional essence, a not very complicated matter. But the sensible formality of Taylor Hackford's direction has the effect of cooling the film's narrative frenzies and helping the actors dig some simple, truthful stuff out of the hubbub. There is something great souled in Bates' work, which is at once sweet and fierce, hesitant and determined. She seems always to be surprising herself with her actions, brushing aside the calculations of the story with the sheer force of her humanity...
L.D.I.'s emergence has many abortion-rights supporters worried-and outraged. Bush says the emotional and financial toll of fighting malpractice suits will probably shut down some abortion clinics, but many will dig in and fight. "It's absolutely bunk that they care about women," says Bush about Crutcher and his organization. "Everything I have seen from Life Dynamics is very specifically focused on driving the abortionists out of business." But Crutcher argues he's keeping women safe and keeping abortionists honest. Of course, what troubles abortion-rights advocates is that L.D.I.'s ultimate goal isn't better abortion services...
Room 711. A faint scraping sound can be heard in Mary Kate Brown's sixth- grade social studies classroom. The students are on a dig. Each group of three or four has been assigned a plot within an ancient Assyrian site. Their mission: to uncover what is at the site, to analyze carefully each artifact they find, then to formulate and defend a thesis about the nature of the place and the people who once lived there. Not even well-heeled Dalton can afford to take an entire class on an excavation in the Middle East, so these students...
...adds Thompson, ``they have knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed to just passing a test.'' It is no coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation is an apt metaphor for the kind of ``constructivist learning'' promoted at the school: students must actively dig up information, then construct their own understanding from raw, observable facts. What the technology does is extend experience so that many more observations are possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster Gardner Dunnan. The underlying premise: we all understand and remember what...