Word: documention
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...that would shake and reshape the world. Yet the entire world was hardly represented. All 56 of the signatories were white males of European descent, most of them wealthy property holders. Like some of his co-revolutionaries, Thomas Jefferson, who was primarily responsible for the soaring language of the document ("We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal . . ."), owned black slaves. In this context, what could "equal" mean? And why were only "men" created that...
...Document specialists obtain clean driver's licenses and car registrations. In 1989 the FBI and New York City prosecutors cracked a scheme in which employees of the state Department of Motor Vehicles were taking bribes of $100 to write phony registration papers. Hundreds of falsely documented cartel vehicles, fitted with hidden compartments, moved drugs north from Mexico and returned south with cash...
...reaction is typical of the strong feelings roused by the sweeping revisionism of Body and Soul. Among other things, it declares that "there is no single, consistent biblical ethic of sexuality" and instructs the church to "repent" its oppressive morality, which the document deems to be the work of white patriarchal "heterosexists." Forget "rules about who sleeps with whom," it urges, and do not "restrict sexual activity to marriage alone," but celebrate all forms of sexual intimacy, "marital, premarital or postmarital...
...delicate topic of teenage sex, the document advises youngsters to make decisions on the basis of "mutuality," "consent" and "maturity." Marilyn Washburn, a clergywoman-physician and dissenting member of the sex panel, considers it "tragic" that the report never tells teens that "there is no perfect means of birth control and that condoms do not prevent sexually transmitted diseases...
...document is ambiguous in its pronouncements on sex within marriage. It redefines fidelity as a learning process in which spouses renegotiate the relationship "as needs and desires change." At the same time, the report omits any mention of the Seventh Commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." This lapse caused conservatives to declare that the document opens the door to extramarital sex, a charge that committee members deny...