Word: explains
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...think the sentiments expressed in the posters are unacceptable and abysmal," Epps said. "And I'd like to contact the people responsible to explain my position in person...
...vertiginous pastimes, such as rock climbing, are the ways a game gal spends a Sunday with her jock husband. So Kidman is not Suzanne Maretto; and the actress, now on location in Italy starring in the Jane Campion film of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady, will heatedly explain why. "Everyone says, 'Oh, you are Suzanne, that's how you played the role so well.' Well, no! I'm an actor, and I created that role. My dream was to be in the theater and be a great actress; Suzanne's ambition is to be on TV and be famous...
...happens to be the law in Nebraska). In light of the lawsuit, the Tulls are also considering a petition for custody of the child. "After all, whose interest is the other side looking out for?" asks the Tulls' local lawyer, Andrew Ferguson. "Eventually someone is going to have to explain to this young girl why her maternal grandparents sued her father for trying to prevent her from being aborted." And, for that matter, why her conception became a cause celebre in Blair...
Americans Edward Lewis and Eric Wieschaus will share the $1 million Nobel Prize in Medicine with German Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard. The three were recognized for work on genetic studies that could help explain birth defects and miscarriages. All three used that classroom staple, the fruit fly, as the basis of their experiments. "They found the genetic master control system for taking a fertilized egg and turning it into a fruit fly embryo," says medical writer Christine Gorman. Because the system exists in other species, she adds, "it explains a lot about the development of human embryos as well...
This time, there were no riots, but the case rent the fabric of race relations in America as much as if angry people had taken to the streets. How else to explain the scenes, witnessed over and over again in bars, offices and homes across the country, of blacks yelling for joy at the verdict and whites shaking their heads? Now, when a white person passes a black person on the street, race will be more at the front of their minds; when lawyers choose juries, they will weigh white and black even more carefully. For advocates of a race...