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...repertoire of trickery includes an outside curve, a change-up, and a riser; the glaring lack of a fastball amidst her numerous strikeouts is a testament to her intimidating presence on the mound...
...future, information will be more valuable than ever. Knowledge and technology are the new capital and labor of the American economy. I have no doubt that there are phenomenal profits to be made in the information industry. The relentless losses of newspapers are undoubtedly testament to their almost unique ineptitude in catering to the needs of the modern citizen or business. The richest man in New York—Michael Bloomberg—is not a Wall Streeter, but tellingly a man who sold news and information to Wall Street, despite the highly entrenched business media that already existed...
...thing that hasn’t been used. Just how much are we going to treat here? When it comes to the original you want them to tell the story.”The fact that all the work done on the objects is reversible is a testament to the Weissman Center’s attention to protecting the pieces’ transformation with time–whether good or bad. Book Conservation Technician Carly Weggeland, working with large sheets of Chinese etchings from the 19th century, was applying thin sheets of remoistenable tissue, which could be attached and reattached...
...addition to funding and related time commitments, my daily life is a personal testament to the gray-area-athleticism paradox. I get to prance around campus in my wildly comfortable gray DHA tuxedo, but since club participants get final picks at the gear, it is sized more appropriately for an offensive lineman than for myself. I also get the opportunity to travel to away football games as part of my team’s budget, although the mandatory trips take place in a white sniper-esque van driven by a coach or teammate. And starting with this season...
...source of their wisdom - their scrolls - with them. "In Qumran, the remnants of a huge library were found," Elior says, with some of the early Hebrew texts dating back to the 2nd century B.C. Until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the earliest known version of the Old Testament dated back to the 9th century A.D. "The scrolls attest to a biblical priestly heritage," says Elior, who speculates that the scrolls were hidden in Qumran for safekeeping. (See pictures of Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land...