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...Colors originally referred to things--red to blood, violet to the flower, black to ink," said Skinner, adding that original references to objects were based first on color and then on a noticed internal sensation...
...another cyclotron investigation, Physicist Bruce Kusko, a member of the Davis team, examined the three-volume Calov Bible that once belonged to Bach. By comparing the composition of the ink used in underlinings and quotation marks that appear throughout the Bible with that of Bach's signature on the title page, he confirmed that the composer, and not one of the subsequent owners, had made the markings. Kusko believes that his finding is important because the markings provide clues about which passages influenced the composer...
Even fragments of the jealously guarded Dead Sea Scrolls have made the trip to Davis, where researchers confirmed that the documents had been preserved by being soaked in salt water, probably from the Dead Sea. They also found that earlier scrolls were written in the purest carbon-based inks. But ink on the later scrolls contained elevated levels of copper. The significance, Schwab speculates, is that a change in rabbinical decree might have allowed the substitute ink to be used if none other was available...
...televised response to the President's address, House Democratic Majority Leader Jim Wright argued that limiting defense spending would be necessary since budget deficits "themselves pose a danger to our national security." Even some members of the President's own party were moved more by the exigencies of red ink than by the Soviet threat. "It's my feeling that the President's appeal will not fly," stated G.O.P. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa...
...shakiest airlines is TWA, which expects to lose $125 million during the first three months of 1986. Buying Ozark Air Lines is part of an aggressive plan to stanch that red ink. The merger could make TWA, which is best known as an overseas carrier, stronger domestically...