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True to form, the Fortas Brigade succeeded In Goulden's words, the "lawyers helped write testimony, and they marched through the hearings and they stayed close around executive sessions to make sure dissidents didn't tamper with the script." Conclusion: the Superlawyers shaped the cigarette law and extracted every once of benefit from...
Pines' version simply describes Jesus as "a wise man" whose "conduct was good" and who "was known to be virtuous." Moreover, it does not mention any involvement of the Jewish leaders in Jesus' trial, a good test of authenticity; any Christian apologist tempted to tamper with the text would almost surely have mentioned the Jews' role. As far as the resurrection is concerned, the 10th century manuscript recounts it only as a claim: "His disciples ... reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive; accordingly, he was perhaps...
...impossible to limit the quest short of killing off the quester: man himself. In deed, those who would set limits are the ones who tamper with "the natural order of things...
...permanent cures of genetic diseases but also for drastic changes in man's genetic makeup. The acquisition of the power to eliminate genetic imperfections and engineer entirely new characteristics for humans is, for all of its promise, a frightening prospect for those who believe that man should not tamper with his inheritance. Yet even before the structure of DNA was defined and the genetic code broken, doctors had begun, mostly by trial and error, to develop techniques of genetic medicine...
...junior high student delivering newspapers brought the statistics to life. A single blast from a shotgun pointed at the predawn shadows killed 13-year-old Todd McKinney. The college student who shot him thought Todd's footsteps might belong to a prowler making a fifth attempt to tamper with the family's 1964 Comet. McKinney had planned to contribute his October earnings to the re-election campaign of Senator Joseph Tydings-because Tydings has been an outspoken champion of tighter gun laws...