Word: burial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burial will be private. A memorial service will be held in Memorial Church at a time to be announced...
...could, that is, if scientists ever get a chance to study it in detail. Unless a judge intervenes, the bones will be turned over to the local Umatilla Indian tribe by the end of the month for immediate burial. Says Umatilla spokesman Armand Minthorn: "Our tradition says once a body goes into the ground, that's where it stays." Under the Native American Graves Protection Act of 1990, museums and scientists must give Native American remains back to the tribes they came from. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over the banks of the Columbia...
...took Beckwith and Fisher 19 years to win permission to photograph the six-week-long Dogon Dama funeral ceremony in Mali, in which bodies are wrapped in cloths and hauled 300 ft. up a sheer cliff face to burial caves that have been in use since the 15th century. To get a shot of the interior of one of those caves, the duo had to be lowered from the top of the cliff by means of ropes and handmade ladders...
TIME calls them "barely visible blobs of protein." The fertility clinic calls them "living cells." A Roman Catholic Cardinal calls for a "decent burial." The Vatican newspaper calls it "a prenatal massacre." The parents who created these embryos don't call to claim them. The whole situation calls for a rational definition of the word human. And until we can settle on this, I call it nonsense. JOHN BRODSKY, M.D. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania...
...rung below these dream and scream queens are such hardworking actresses as lissome Maria Ford, 25, who has made 40 DTVs (Burial of the Rats, Naked Obsession) in eight years but says she earned less than $25,000 last year. "You have to love to act," she says. "The food is always bad; you never get any sleep; you work 17-hour days; the scripts change at the last minute." Ford's theory of nude scenes: "I'm willing to take off my clothes for 10% of a film so I can act in the other...