Word: priestly
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...priest: "Do these experiences?the war, the voyage?do something permanently worthwhile for the children? Or will the children change as they grow older? Will they eventually become like any generation of warriors...
...tell?" the priest shrugs. "Some of these children have been through hell. It will depend on what their memories do to them...
...this hot, blue Sunday morning, on this pontoon in Hong Kong harbor, on a crate marked PRECISION EXPLOSIONS, LTD., the priest sits safely. He has just arrived from Haiphong with 28 others, who five weeks ago slipped aboard too small a junk and trusted themselves to the South China Sea. Behind him the junk bobs crazily in the harbor, giving an idea of how it must have rolled in open swells. His fellow refugees huddle together on the pontoon, staring straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from...
...beside the remains of tillers that were made with welded pipes. Only a few boats rest in Gin Drinker's Bay now, smoldering near the scavenging dogs. There were hundreds here once?boats that packed people in holds that were intended for fish. The boats are ruins. For the priest, Trinh and for tens of thousands to date, all that is left of Viet Nam are these boats...
...Geological Survey attacked creation science at its weakest point: the contention that the earth is some 10,000 years old. It is more like 4.5 billion years, said Dalrymple, who scorned the creation contingent as flat-earthers. Francisco Ayala of the University of California at Davis, an ex-priest turned geneticist, ran a brief seminar on amino acids to show that man and monkeys evolved from a common ancestor, but conceded that God could be behind the whole process...