Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...autographs, accept a stuffed teddy bear or stop and chat with a thigh-high champion of tomorrow. Most practice sessions are like high school afternoon scrimmages: come along and stay behind afterward to hear from the source what it feels like to sail along the wind in a grand spread eagle. The end of all that may have begun last week...
...Petras, project manager for Boston Edison, said he saw the movie as a an educational tool. "Our company feels that education is the key to stop the spread of the disease," he said. "As such, I am quite a willing supporter of events such as this...
...with all big issues, there is another side to it: the level of passionate beliefs and impulses. We call them irrational only because they resist rationalizing away; they are as important as anything that can be put on a bar graph or a spread sheet. In the interests of truth in labeling, opponents of the health plan, like me, and supporters should explore these motives. I'll show mine, if they'll show me theirs. Better yet, I'll show both sets...
...These were men who believed not in nothing, as the word now implies, but in the rejection of the standard beliefs and values of society. And so, contrary to the times, Jesus taught radical egalitarianism. He also demanded itinerancy of his disciples. Believing that such wanderlust subtly spread subversion, the Romans had him crucified. Jesus -- a peasant nobody -- was never buried, never taken by his friends to a rich man's sepulcher. Rather, says Crossan, the tales of entombment and resurrection were latter-day wishful thinking. Instead, Jesus' corpse went the way of all abandoned criminals' bodies: it was probably...
...have clear points of view. One of the most formidable of traditionalist Bible scholars, Wright, whose conservative rejoinder Jesus and the Victory of God (Fortress) is forthcoming, says the skeptical theories also fail to provide any credible explanation for how a faith founded by their pared-down Jesus could spread so rapidly after his Crucifixion. Wright's explanation: the resurrection...