21.   Biblical allusions to their ferocity aside, Assyrians were probably no more vicious than other regimes of their time, scholars say.

22.   A British scholar says Marco Polo never got to China.

23.   A leading scholar said Chinese anger towards America should be viewed in the context of the limits imposed on public discourse.

24.   A powerful bit of evidence comes from a re-examination of the story of Moses, who scholars now say bears a striking resemblance to a young Egyptian pharaoh.

25.   Additionally, many women choose to abort fetuses they discover are female, the scholars said.

26.   African scholars say that the need to act in a concerted fashion is only one lesson of the recent West African experience.

27.   Also, contemporary movie makers must deal with what scholars say is the historical reality behind the texts.

28.   Business scholars say these colorful exchanges, in conversations and e-mail messages, also indicate that industry leaders may not be as savvy as they pretend to be.

29.   But a particular mistake might not cause a conviction to be reversed, legal scholars said.

30.   But his father-in-law, Feng Yuanxin, was a prominent reform-minded official in Sichuan province at the time of the protests, one Chinese scholar said.