Word: offshoots
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Koresh dropped out of school in the ninth grade. Raised in the mainstream Seventh-day Adventist Church, he found comfort as a young man in the teachings of an obscure offshoot, the Branch Davidians, which was a mutation of an earlier Adventist splinter group. The Davidians trace their roots to Victor Houteff, a Bulgarian immigrant who was expelled from a Los Angeles Adventist church in 1929. Houteff had become obsessed with passages in the Book of Ezekiel in which an angel of God divides the faithful from the sinful before Jerusalem's fall to the Babylonians. Believing that passage...
...church that expounds no exotic new heresies and is unbesmirched by financial and sexual scandals? Hostility focuses especially on the rigid control the church hierarchy exercises over the lives of members. McKean, 37, who left the 3,700-member Boston flock in 1990 to head its Los Angeles offshoot, is the undisputed leader. He personally instructed 10 male elders and assigned them to supervise various regions around the world. McKean says these leaders govern by consensus but adds, "I'm the one who gives them direction." Says Al Baird, a veteran Boston elder: "It's not a dictatorship...
Five other faculty members were elected to the Institute of Medicine, an offshoot of the academy that recruits professionals to study public health policy...
...some of the diseases that afflicted them. The technique has also been used to examine DNA from animal skins in natural-history museums and from the frozen remains of woolly mammoths. Among the unresolved questions that PCR may eventually shed light on is whether the Neanderthals were an unsuccessful offshoot of the evolutionary tree or the direct ancestors of modern humans. It may also be able to unravel the mystery of what happened to the ancient Celts, who once populated most of Western Europe. "Now," says University of Leicester geneticist Alec Jeffreys, "there is a genetic time machine for looking...
...fetal rights controversy has developed over the past decade as an offshoot of the continuing effort to illegalize abortion. Anti-abortion advocates recognized that if a fetus was granted the same rights under the law as a born human being, abortion would begin to look more and more like murder in the eyes...