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...next phase of the case was its crisis. Maintaining that the farmer-jurors, admittedly unfamiliar with the theory of Evolution, were unfit to decide whether or not it "denies Genesis" until they had heard an explanation of the theory, the defense sought to put scientific experts on the stand for the farmer-jurors' instruction. At once the prosecution objected. The jurors, who had so far spent most of their time wandering around outside the court house, trying to avoid hearing the loud-spoken radio echoes of arguments within the court over what was and was not fitting for them...
...disprove Scopes' misdemeanor through "reconciling" the Biblical with the scientific account of creation, there remained to the trial nothing but the bald testimony of two schoolboys that Scopes had "taught Evolution." Though the trial lasted a fortnight, costing over $25,000,? the schoolboys' testimony was practically all the farmer-jurors were permitted to hear in the courtroom. It alone constituted the basis for their verdict of "Guilty...
...were worked up about the price of coffee. COLIN FIRTH is immersed in the issue. The Bridget Jones's Diary star endured a java shower for an ad campaign for the British charity Oxfam. "If I'm paying nearly $3 for a cup of coffee and some Ethiopian farmer gets 2% of that," he says, "where does the rest of it go?" Saying he is reluctant to be "just a windbag" on fair trade, Firth has also invested in a chain of coffee shops in London that pledges to compensate the crop's farmers fairly. He has worked the counter...
...Gush Katif, announced that Israel would cede some of that Biblical land, religious Zionists questioned whether the great redemption was coming, after all. ?It's an ideological and spiritual crisis,? says Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, a religious Zionist leader. ?All this faith in redemption is collapsing.? Goldschmidt, the Ganei Tal farmer, resolves that quandary simply by asserting that ?Sharon's not a Zionist any more...
What is it exactly that we see in Grant Wood's stern old farmer and the woman at his side with her strange, sidelong glance? Is this an image of enduring Midwestern probity or a satire of small-town small-mindedness? Wood, who recruited his 30-year-old sister and his 62-year-old dentist to pose for him, preferred to insist that his interest was just painterly. This book traces the impact and changing meaning of the iconic image through its 75-year history...