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...boys at Johns Hopkins got through with the cadaver. Severe blow to the skull with a blunt instrument. Massive internal bleeding. Maybe drugged first. Victim was a female Native American. Probably 12 to 14 years old. Well dressed: had a fancy alpaca dress, striped, and a nice shawl. Silver pin. In pretty good health--"Best set of teeth I've seen in a long time," says Elliot Fishman, a Hopkins doc--until she turned up dead, of course. Been cold for a while when they found her--500 years, give or take...
...politics are malleable. He is, at once, red enough for old-style Communists and white enough for hard-line nationalists. At a late-April meeting with the candidate in the town of Sosnovy Bor, due west of St. Petersburg, an old man with damp eyes and a Soviet-flag pin stuck in his lapel reverently described Zyuganov as ''one of the best leaders our party has ever had." At a May Day rally in Moscow, the heads of various nationalist movements praised Zyuganov as someone who shares their anti-Western, often anti-Semitic beliefs. In St. Petersburg, a man introduced...
...wind shear. This occurs when winds in the so-called boundary layer--the part of the atmosphere closest to earth--blow more gently than winds at higher elevations. These two wind streams push on the layer of air that lies between them as though it were an invisible rolling pin. Then, as the warm updraft that powers a supercell shoots toward the stratosphere, it tilts the rolling pin so that it spins on its end. Soon the updraft starts to spin, giving birth to a mesocyclone, a rotating column of air as wide as six miles...
...write for the guidebook, I feel that it amounts to the fact that while your friends will have similar interests and opinions as you, it is those students whom often you don't know or know informally whose opinions incite you to formulate arguments and to pin-point your own beliefs...
...discussions carried on by the Jesus Seminar are reminiscent of theologian St. Thomas Aquinas' musings about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. The seminar members are using the so-called scientific-historical approach, but their findings are just as irrelevant to the true spirit and character of Christianity as were those of their predecessors...