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University Museum Courtyard, 24 Oxford Street...
Some HMOs and other insurance companies have begun to cover alternative treatments such as acupuncture or traditional Chinese medicine. In recent years, major insurers such as Mutual of Omaha Companies, Oxford Health Plans and PacifiCare have extended coverage to various nontraditional therapies. In fact, our very own University Health Services (UHS) has just hired Mr. Karl Berger, a licensed Shiatsu Massage Therapist affiliated with the Boston Shiatsu School...
...video camera, Italian microanalyst Giovanni Riggi cut a 1/2-in. by 3-in. strip of linen from the shroud, well away from its central image and any charred or patched areas. He divided the strip into three postage stamp-size samples and distributed them to representatives of laboratories in Zurich, Oxford and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Each then performed at least three radiocarbon measurements on its sample...
...scientists retreated to their labs. In October of the same year, the Oxford team gave a press conference at the British Museum. To eliminate suspense, they had helpfully written two dates on a chalkboard behind them: "1260-1390!" This estimated span for the origin of the shroud's linen was later detailed in an article co-written with the other two labs for the journal Nature, which straightforwardly stated that the radiocarbon-dating results "provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is medieval." Nuclear physicist Harry Gove, who helped develop the radiocarbon-dating process used...
Well, maybe. Few people have put as much effort into proving that no human hand painted the shroud--and that it is far older than the radiocarbon dating allows--as the cheerful, Oxford-educated Wilson. Perhaps the best known and most open minded of the shroud apologists, Wilson, 57, has penned three shroud books and spent innumerable hours researching the relic. He was first captivated by a photograph of the image at age 15. "It just didn't seem like a work of art to me; it whetted my interest and rocked my agnosticism." He eventually converted to Catholicism...