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...BORN. To ALETA ST. JAMES, 57, sister of radio host and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa; a daughter FRANCESCA and a son GIAN; in New York City. The arrival is believed to have made St. James, who conceived through in vitro fertilization, the oldest American to give birth to twins--at least...
...express deep sorrow for the family of the victim of this horrible crime, Aleta Carol Bunch. But as has been said many times before, nothing can bring Aleta back, nor will executing her killer right any wrong. Life in prison will prevent him from ever having the chance to commit a crime again...
Meanwhile, deep in the forests of the Dominican Republic, at a site known as La Aleta, a U.S.-Dominican team has made what may be an even more important discovery: a 240-ft.-deep Taino cenote, or ceremonial well, where hundreds of objects thrown in as offerings have been preserved in the oxygen-poor water. Preliminary explorations of the surrounding forest suggest that the well was just one component of a ceremonial center that covered at least 10 acres...
Impressive as they are, these two sites are only a fraction of what archaeologists believe remains to be found. La Aleta, for example, was part of the chiefdom of Higuey, one of the Taino's richest, most populous and politically powerful territories. "What other sites were connected with it?" wonders Indiana University archaeologist Geoffrey Conrad. "What did the environment look like 500 years ago? I have a list of questions that I'll never live to see answered." Other scholars will come along to fill in the gaps, though. And even if it takes another century to understand the Taino...
...little did Sir Gawain (played in rancho accents by Sterling Hayden) know that Prince Val had been abducted by vile Viking traitors, the lady Aleta being merely a tasty dividend for the false king Slidor. While Sir Gawain pouted in a brown study Val was clambering about Scandinavian battlements winning back his father's kingdom...