Word: righting
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Secular scholarship places Christ's real birth at about 3 or 4 B.C. The Christian church has never been very quick to acknowledge poor scholarship--it took the church nearly four centuries to get the heliocentric model of the universe right. Nonetheless, four years ago the church could have made up for some lost ground in the past if it had recognized the 2,000th birthday of Christ in 1997 or 1998 (adjusting for calendar irregularities). We are fortunate that no terrorists managed to set any bombs off this millennium, but how much time, money and effort could have been...
...been brought up against Driskell and Burton, ostensibly because they do not want to disqualify them. The commissioners, however, are the only people who can enforce the campaign rules, and it is not their place to decide what would be most convenient for them, but rather what is right...
...Right now the committee is simply reviewing the data and plans to meet with faculty members later this month to share the findings, Warren said...
...strong favorite despite Bradley's lead in New Hampshire, took a stronger stand than both his rival and the Clinton administration on the issue of gays in the military. He vowed that he wouldn't appoint any officer to the Joint Chiefs of Staff who didn't support the right of gays to serve openly in the armed forces...
...unfair level of scrutiny by being linked to its sister mission, the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was lost because one of its programmers used inches instead of centimeters. Lemonick points out that the Martian region the Polar Lander touched down on has very few canyons, so NASA was right to expect a smooth landing. "Until the day when we can survey the entire planet with incredibly high precision, which is probably 100 years away, you can't control exactly where you're going to land," says Lemonick. "It would be absurd for Congress to take money away from NASA because...