Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rejection always stings at first, but it only truly affects the attitude of the individual when they forget the times in life when they were the best. These little victories are what make life worth living. Using the "draft method" to equalize pain is the wrong answer...
...Cyberspace, the laws of the tangible worlddo not make a smooth transition, and a personalcode of ethics is a better method of maintainingdecency and order, Barlow says...
...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 itself bears no telltale brushstrokes and seems have been rendered by no artistic method either of the Middle Ages or of Jesus' time. Publicized by a spate of books, the 1978 findings exposed more people to the shroud than had ever thought of it before--and convinced a hefty portion of them that it was indeed Christ's burial sheet. That is, until...
...experts. Contradicting Adler, he maintains, "We stayed away from charring and what might have been charred." Beyond that, the samples were cleaned both mechanically and chemically to rid them of contaminants. In fact, charring per se does not alter an object's carbon 14 ratio: scientists routinely use the method to date pieces of charcoal...
...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 off a sample of this natural "varnish" as well as the blood underneath it. They came up with a date of about A.D. 400--definitely not modern, but still 600 years younger than the carving's style suggested...