Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find spread, and over the weekend about two dozen curiosity seekers trudged to the site. Some collected fragments of garments and tools as souvenirs, and one used a pickax to free the body from the melting ice. Overnight, however, the temperature dropped. By the time Innsbruck forensics expert Dr. Rainer Henn arrived to investigate the death, on Monday, Sept. 23, the body was again locked in ice. Having neglected to bring tools, Henn and his team resorted to hacking it out with a borrowed ice pickax and ski pole, largely destroying the archaeological value of the site...
...must have seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Now in real estate, Porter is a former academic who once held positions at Boston University and Harvard. He's a self-described "historian f Jewish history" and "expert on Black-Jewish relations". And he's the child of Holocaust survivors...
That the BSA chose Porter, however, reflects a belief that an individual's racial or ethnic affiliation qualifies him or her to speak as an expert on matters pertaining to the group. It is this belief that increasingly dominates discussions of race and ethnicity at Harvard. And it is this belief that explains why the "Conversation on Black-Jewish Unity" was a farce...
...coalition opposed to the regime of Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah to win 31 of 50 parliamentary seats. The government can expect sharp debate over its unpreparedness for the 1990 invasion by Iraq. Kuwaiti-Iraqi tensions remain so high that last week Chad Hall, a U.S. munitions expert working to clear ordnance inside Kuwait, was briefly taken prisoner by Iraqis who apparently thought he had crossed the unmarked border...
...Kevin Reilly, an Environmental ProtectionAgency (EPA) drinking water expert, agreed thatCambridge water is safe to use. But he saw twopotential problems with the city's practice ofdumping sludge back into the water supply...