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According to police reports, one of the students--all of whom are minors--was in possesion of a burglar's tools and dangerous weapon, a five-inch knife with a handle...
...politics, it is pitch-black even an inch in front of one's nose. So goes a Japanese proverb. And so went Japanese politics last week as Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone tried to fashion a strategy that would keep him in office beyond October, when the rules of his Liberal-Democratic Party (L.D.P.) require that he step down...
...seeing, whose images fluctuate between reverence for the world's tender details and horror at its resilient otherness. In Durer as in no other artist one sees the moralized universe of the Middle Ages retreating before the scientific one of the Renaissance, not giving ground gracefully but fighting every inch of the way. What the Nuremberg show offers is virtually a self-contained retrospective of his prints--famous ones like Melencolia I or Knight, Death and Devil, less | commonly seen images such as his suites of woodcuts illustrating the life of the Virgin--fleshed out with a selection of paintings...
...half inch to the side or one-half inch down and it would have cut into a major ligament and that could have been it," Dr. Arthur Pappas said...
Gwinn said that before the group's pioneering work scientists had not formally determined the distance which separated celestial bodies. He called the scientific community's conception of the Milky Way "maps without inch-to-mile scales...