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Pressuring Imax cinemas to shun films that support evolution.


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In Chinese mythology, one of the three legendary emperors, along with Yao and Da Yu, of the golden age of antiquity (c. 23rd century BC), singled out by Confucius as models of integrity and virtue.
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 are learning the economic impact of airing any films that present the "blasphemous blas·phe·mous  
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Impiously irreverent.



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" scientific theory.

Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist.
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Title Annotation:Worth Noting
Author:Gajewski, Karen Ann
Publication:The Humanist
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 1, 2005
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