Word: scientists
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...last month it was Lewis' turn: Starrs was using his radar probe to locate the explorer's remains. If the data show anything worth digging up, the scientist would have to obtain permission from the U.S. Department of the Interior and Tennessee authorities to do so. Lewis' descendants already support the project. Once the explorer is out of the ground, Starrs could use several technological tools that can coax secrets from the dead. Modern lab tests can detect the tiniest traces of poison or gunpowder residue, DNA analysis can help make identifications and scrutiny with scanning electron microscopes can reveal...
...also said to be surrendering in unprecedented numbers -- 130 since Jan. 1 -- presumably because they prefer jail to possible death at the hands of the commandos. The military says the 130 are hard-core fighters, a claim many Palestinians dispute. Saleh Abdul Jawad Saleh, a West Bank political scientist who has studied Palestinian fugitives, says most of those who have given themselves up were wanted for lesser offenses, such as throwing rocks or painting nationalistic graffiti. The shooters, he adds, remain at large...
...some other Republicans do. Richard Land, head of the group's Christian Life Commission, warns that "it will take clear differences on values to get Southern Baptists to vote against two people of their own denomination. If you want to energize Southern Baptists, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure...
Royalty and privilege are threatened. So too is a genteel culture represented by Sir William, British envoy to the decadent Neapolitan court. A collector of antiquities and an amateur scientist, he occasions Sontag's heavier musings. Unfortunately, he is too underpowered to be the principal vehicle in a historical tour de force. Making a cameo appearance, Goethe dismisses him as "a simple-minded epicurean...
Viewers' familiarity with the gore genre has never bothered Brian De Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing...