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...DECEPTIVE COAT OF VARNISH? One challenge to the radiocarbon dating that has received a good deal of publicity is that of Dr. Leoncio Garza-Valdes, a San Antonio, Texas, pediatrician with interests in microbiology and archaeology. In 1983, while examining a Mayan jade artifact that art experts claimed was a recent forgery, Garza-Valdes discovered that it was covered by a lacquer-like coating produced by bacteria. Since it also had traces of ancient blood on it that should have been datable by the radiocarbon method, he took it to the University of Arizona dating lab, where scientists scraped...
Several years later, when the three labs, the University of Arizona among them, produced their wet-blanket dates for the Turin shroud, a possibility flashed through Garza-Valdes' mind. What if the shroud too had a "bioplastic" varnish--and the labs had been fooled into decreeing an object younger than it actually was? In May 1993 Garza-Valdes traveled to Turin, microscope in hand, and was put in touch with Giovanni Riggi, the microanalyst who had parceled out the 1988 samples. Riggi let Garza-Valdes examine a tiny piece of shroud that he assured him came from the same batch...
During the Politicalismo debate, facilitator Marti Garza, organizing director for the Center for Campus Organizing, asked the students how they have formed successful campus groups and support networks for Chicano students...
Several students complained that upon reaching college, many students focus exclusively on their personal success. Garza emphasized the importance of recognizing the strength of a community rather than individual voice...
...John Bryant, D-Texas (5) Jim Chapman, D-Texas (1) William F. Clinger, R-Pa. (5) Ronald D. Coleman, D-Texas (16) Barbara-Rose Collins, D-Mich. (15)* Cardiss Collins, D-Ill. (7) Wes Cooley R-Ore. (2) Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill. (20) E. ("Kika") de la Garza, D-Texas (15) Cleo Fields D-La. (4) Jack Fields, R-Texas (8) Harold E. Ford, D-Tenn. (9) Pete Geren, D-Texas (12) Sam M. Gibbons, D-Fla. (11) Enid Greene [Waldholtz], R-Utah (2) Steve Gunderson, R-Wis. (3) Mel Hancock, R-Mo. (7) Jimmy Hayes...