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...stamped into the weapon in three places. Filing serial numbers off guns doesn't obliterate them, however - they are deeply impressed into the steel and can be raised with an acid bath. But the agents didn't have to send the guns to the lab to find their origin, because they found the receipt...
...France have been in short supply ever since. Nearly 20% of Saint-Gilles's residents are jobless, and practically all of those live on state assistance. Roughly 25% of the town's population of nearly 12,000 are immigrant or first-generation French citizens--virtually all of North African origin. Most live in the Sabatot housing projects uphill from the town's center and are frequently reviled by older Saint-Gilles inhabitants as disorderly, uncivil and crime prone...
...primary concern—and I hope that President-elect Faust thinks the same—is that whatever the gender or intellectual origin of my successor, it should be someone who is going to be a close friend and colleague of President-elect Faust, in helping her shape the future of our Faculty,” he said...
...embalm bodies in ancient Egypt. The presence of the cat bones might have added weight to the relics' authenticity, as black cats were traditionally thrown on the fires that burned those accused of witchcraft in medieval times. DNA tests revealed however that the animal was of non-European origin...
...THAT EACH is exaggerating its claim. Fundamentalist pastor John Hagee has complained that The Bible and Its Influence, a curriculum Kendrick uses in her class, could "greatly damage" youth too callow to "decipher" what he called its misrepresentations of Scripture. He cited its observation that contrary to Christianity, "other origin stories tell of ... gods who themselves are created." Hagee thundered that this could convince a student that polytheism is as valid as monotheism. But evangelical pundit Chuck Colson favors Bible-literacy courses. "Would I prefer a more explicitly biblical Christian teaching?" he asks. "Of course...