Word: fishermen
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That scandalized Marcion's fellow Christians, who believed in a continuity of inspiration from Adam through Moses to Jesus. Not so, said Marcion, who deleted even Luke's accounts of the child Jesus. Jesus, Marcion believed, appeared fully grown in Capernaum to the fishermen who would become the first Disciples. The Christians of Rome promptly started to form their own canon, which included an "old" testament. They expelled Marcion from the church, handing him back his charity...
...after the prior owner had fallen into bankruptcy. McDougal was intrigued, especially because the acreage had a lot of frontage on the White River. The river descends through the rugged terrain of north-central Arkansas and has stretches of white water, making it popular for rafting expeditions and with fishermen. Like McDougal's previous investments, the large tract seemed ideal for subdividing and reselling as individual lots...
...amendments to the 1972 act, which forbade imports of tuna caught using nets to encircle dolphins that for unexplained reasons swim together with tuna in parts of the Pacific. Before the act, this method suffocated as many as 500,000 of the marine mammals each year. After 1972, American fishermen drastically reduced their dolphin kill, but in the 1980s the number of dolphins killed by foreign boats rose dramatically...
Mexico promptly filed an international trade complaint. But it also took steps to reduce dolphin deaths, and by 1995 the number of dolphins killed by tuna fishermen annually had dropped below 5,000 worldwide--demonstrating, Mexicans assert, that fishing boats can encircle dolphins without killing the animals. The U.S. and a coalition of green groups met with Latin nations in Panama last October to hammer out new guidelines for environmentally sound tuna fishing. Their declaration permits encirclement so long as onboard observers certify that no dolphin drowned during the netting operation, and its provisions became the basis for a bill...
...lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just pulled from the sea." Like Audrey Hepburn, perhaps, Brown's art is meticulous and precise beneath its haunting surface...