Word: portions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Funny how all it took for the racist demons of this country to pop out was for the President to admit to national guilt. It's not as if he offered any portion of the $1.4 trillion this nation made off of slavery in reparation, or even as if he actually apologized. If the President can't even admit that this country was and continues to be wrong for reaping the benefits of slavery, what does the future hold for those who continue, alone, to reap the woes...
...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 an additional experiment seemed to rule out that possibility entirely...
...Adler, an emeritus professor at Western Connecticut State University who has worked on the shroud, takes this possibility very seriously. "The sample used for dating," he asserts, "came from an area that is water-stained and scorched, and the edge is back-woven, indicating repair"--not from a clean portion, as the dating team insists. Adler says that infrared spectroscopy indicates that the sample's threads differ from those in the rest of the shroud. That doesn't guarantee, he hastens to acknowledge, that the sample was insufficiently testable and representative. But to be sure, he says, "you need more...
...artists, we have to create vision," said panelist Abe Rybeck, an actor at Theater Offensive. Rybeck explained that a very small portion of the funding available for the arts is designated for work that steps beyond current paradigms...
...climbers give Everest a personal element rarely found on the IMAX screen. As the movie unfolds the audience finds itself rooting for the climbers--pushing Norgay to follow in his father's footsteps and Segarra to make history. While this aspect of the film was planned, the most emotional portion of the movie was the product of a tragic accident...