Word: andes
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Others convey all the enchanting density of Garcia Marquez's fiction at its best. In The Saint, a man from the Colombian Andes takes the miraculously preserved body of his daughter, dead at age seven and exhumed 11 years later to make way for a dam, to Rome to seek her canonization by the church. When the story ends, 22 years later, he is still waiting, another outsider absorbed into the rhythms of the Eternal City...
This rewriting of conventional wisdom has accelerated in the past 10 years. New fossil beds have been found and old ones rediscovered in the Gobi Desert, along the ancient Silk Road in the mountains of China, on the margin of the Argentine Andes and in the jungles of Laos and Thailand. Despite the remarkably small number of scientists working in the field -- only about 100 worldwide, splitting a meager $1 million in research funds -- a new dinosaur species is found on average every seven weeks...
...knows what the very first true dinosaur looked like, but a young paleontologist named Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago has come closer than anyone else to finding out. In 1991, working with Argentine scientists in Ischigualasto Provincial Park at the edge of the Andes, he unearthed one of the oldest dinosaur fossils ever found. The animal, now known as Eoraptor, was a carnivore that dates from 230 million years ago. Like the much later Tyrannosaurus, the Eoraptor belonged to the saurischian, or lizard-hipped, category of dinosaurs. (The name refers to the arrangement of its pelvic bones...
...THIS FOR ALIVE, DIRECTOR FRANK Marshall's version of the Piers Paul Read best seller about a 1972 Andes plane crash that forced its surviving passengers to cannibalism: early on, the movie has a great avalanche. After that, it's all downhill. The acting (Ethan Hawke and Vincent Spano are the stars) starts at a pitch of whiny hysteria and rarely lets up. The dialogue, by ace playwright John Patrick Shanley, sounds as if poorly translated from the Spanish: "What have we done that God now asks us to eat the bodies of our own dead friends?" Dissing aside, that...
Society was also growing more complex in Mexico and Central America, but it was at its most elaborate in parts of South America. Settlers in the Ayacucho region of the Andes had domesticated guinea pigs and llamas by the time Iceman lived, and farmed potatoes, squash, beans and corn. Along the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably...