Which line from the excerpt expresses a subjective
viewpoint by the author?
Read the excerpt from "Bone Detective," by Lorraine Jean
Hopping
Diane pointed to an area of reactive bone on the femur.
Reactive bone is a rough patch where there was an injury
-heavy bruising from a bullet, for example. The injury
stimulates osteoblasts to grow new bone. On Dixon's
skeleton the reactive bone was near the hip joint, right at
pocket height.
The Hunley recovery team planned to display Diane's casts
in a museum that was about to be built. But did the casts
belong in a public exhibit? Some people objected to
displaying soldiers' remains-even though they were
plastic replicas. Diane saw nothing wrong with it. In fact,
she had no qualms about showing the real bones.
Scientists will likely be investigating the answers for
years to come, thanks in it to Diane's casts.
Diane pointed to an area of reactive bone on the femur.
On Dixon's skeleton the reactive bone was near the hip
joint, right at pocket height.
The Hunley recovery team planned to display Diane's
casts in a museum that was about to be built.
"If people want to really learn about the soldiers," she said,
"you have to show the bones. The bone is a record of a
person's life, especially the last part-the circumstances of