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That loss is now remedied by two exhibitions. "Maya: Treasures of an Ancient Civilization," organized by the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico, is on view at New York City's American Museum of Natural History. Next month it will move on to four other U.S. cities. A less ambitious but highly illuminating show, "Cenote of Sacrifice: Maya Treasures from the Sacred Well at Chichen Itza," drew crowds at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. It will move on to the Oakland Museum in California in the autumn and is scheduled to continue on the road in U.S. museums...
...Jackie Gutierrez, 8, of the Santa Clara pueblo in New Mexico, bilingual learning has meant sitting in a twice-a-week class listening and responding to Leon Baca, a teacher of the ancient Tewa language. During a recent session, Baca grunted, "Nyaemangeri!" The students replied, "Left side!" "Haa (yes)," intoned Baca; then "Ko'ringeri!" The children shouted, "Right side!" Asked later what the enrichment class was all about, Jackie replied, "We're learning to speak Indian...
...christened Alcyone, after the daughter of the Greek god of wind, but the ancient Greeks never saw her like. The sailing ship harnesses the wind with a superefficient system of cylindrical aluminum "turbo sails." The 72- ton vessel also has engines and was developed by Neptune's modern descendant, Jacques Cousteau, and two other French designers who hoped to show that the sails could save some conventional ships up to 35% on fuel bills. Setting out on her maiden voyage from France five weeks ago, the ship made stops in the ! Azores and Bermuda before arriving last week...
Radical Shi'ite factions settled into a virtual viper's nest in Baalbek, an ancient city in the Bekaa Valley 40 miles east of Beirut. There a contingent of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, inspired by the Khomeini revolution, sent young Lebanese fanatics out on bottle-smashing sprees in the bars of Beirut, taught them how to rig cars with powerful bombs and prepared them to die for their cause. "Like Khomeini," says Gary Sick, a former National Security Council staffer and an expert on Islamic fundamentalism, "these Shi'ite fundamentalists are rejecting the entire Western system...
Moscow's hunger for high tech has transformed the ancient art of spying. No longer are the Soviets principally interested in the traditional fruits of espionage -- the enemy's order of battle, troop movements and codes -- even though, as the Walker case vividly demonstrates, they would dearly like to know the secrets of U.S. antisubmarine warfare. High tech has both raised the stakes and broadened the game. It has made the Silicon Valley microchips as valuable as NATO war plans, and it has made traitors out of civilian engineers as well as Navy code clerks...