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...Here's the set-up. In 1980 a construction crew in the Jerusalem suburb of Talpiot chanced upon a first-century tomb, which are not uncommon in that city. The Israeli Antiquities Authority found 10 bone boxes there, and stored them in a warehouse. Some bore inscribed names: Jesus, son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene e Mara; Matthew; Judas, son of Jesus; and Jose. Each name with the exception of Mariamene seemed common to their period, and it was only in 1996 that the BBC made a film suggesting that. given the combination, it might be that family. The idea...
...University of North Carolina scholar James Tabor told him that Mariamene was the name some Christians gave to Mary Magdalene. If true, that added a rather uncommon name to the statistical mix. (Or as Cameron put it, "If you found a John, a Paul and a George, you're not going to leap to any conclusions... unless you found a Ringo...
...Muslim teachers a choice of where to work. In return, women who cover would have to accept that in certain situations - at passport control, say - security concerns trump personal beliefs and they would be required to show their faces. In practice, this balance between policy and piety isn't uncommon. All over Europe, governments and religious minorities are meeting in the middle. Under English law, Jewish religious courts have the power to settle noncriminal cases like divorce settlements. And the Netherlands gives equal government funding to faith schools and public schools, on the condition that the faith schools meet strict...
...Children's Hospital, of the methods Beddoe ascribes to Braydle. "Sadly, people who read this book will think that is the alternative to being on drugs." And is it? No-at least it needn't be. Specialists in psychotherapy, or talking therapy, say Braydle's style was not only uncommon and wrongheaded but amounts to malpractice. The code of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists forbids not only sex with patients but "any behavior which might be reasonably interpreted by a patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners...
Although the alpine team has not suffered such extensive injuries in recent years, skiing injuries are not uncommon, nor are they unexpected...