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...scientific observers. The trend's high point occurred in 1978, when the Roman Catholic Church allowed a five-day extravaganza during which more than two dozen scientists from the U.S., Italy and Switzerland performed a battery of tests on the shroud and also used pieces of tape to lift material from its surface for later study. The tests included photo- and electron microscopy, X rays, spectroscopy, ultraviolet fluorescence, thermography and chemical analyses. Among the scientists' findings: that the shroud had come into direct contact with a body and that the "blood" on the cloth is probably real blood. The figure...
Chemist Alan Adler, however, doubts that the oxidation was humanly induced. For one thing, the image is only one fiber deep. "If you lift a crossing fiber, you won't find any discoloration below," he says. The application of acids would not achieve such delicacy. Similarly, the fiber-by-microscopic-fiber gradations, even within a single thread, that make up the figure's exquisite "shading" would defy a human hand, were it engaged in either the application of acid or a rubbing process. Finally, Adler, a recognized expert on certain molecules found in blood, notes emphatically of the crimson stains...
...have been playing really well," Jamieson said. "It was a big lift having Ralph back, and all our pitchers have been throwing strikes. Everything is really starting to come together...
Juxtaposed against these movers and shakers on spring break are the lift operators, ski patrol and resort workers: the locals. These tough and hardy souls sacrifice their "earning potential," as we would say in Harvard vernacular, for something we don't have: 120 days of skiing a year in the peace, beauty and allure of the mountains...
...jiggy wit it, to do the deed, to shop-lift the pootie, to mess around, to get a piece, to lay pipe, to get it on, to knock boots with, to snog, to go down, to shift, to shag, to shag her silly, to shag her rotten, to loc the dinky, to plow the muddy road, to donkey-punch, to get some action, to hit that shit, to get some, to bunt, to get on, to shack up, to bless, HBI, to go south, to tax that ass, to hit that, to get laid, to hump, to bang bang bang...