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...weirder comings-out in the history of the genre. Smith writes of a doomed youthful romance with a fellow female student at the University of Texas; their parents read their love letters and forced the two apart. Yet she writes about her longtime roommate, the archaeologist Iris Love, with puzzling coyness. She dismisses Kitty Kelley's insinuation, in a book on Nancy Reagan, that Love and Smith were a couple ("a fantastic aside that I had been 'living openly for years with another woman in New York'") without flatly denying it ("I didn't quite get this stupid and arcane...
...sudden chill would shorten growing seasons, and the resulting changes in precipitation could be even more damaging. Colder air is dryer air, and Alley points out that during the Younger Dryas, the monsoon weakened in Asia and the Sahara expanded. Harvey Weiss, a Yale archaeologist who has studied the role of climate in human history, notes that it's not changes in temperature that bring down civilizations but changes in precipitation...
...Jersey's Meadowlands. After studying landscape architecture at Harvard, Bargmann, who lives and teaches in Charlottesville, Va., became one of the rare yet growing number of landscape architects interested in doing more than just covering up abandoned sites by turning them into golf courses. Instead, she combines an archaeologist's reverence for the land's past, an environmentalist's concern for its future and an artist's appreciation of its present to create a new kind of public space...
...theory to explain the Hunley's sinking is that the torpedo was detonated prematurely, popping rivets. "Rivet technology wasn't very well developed in the 19th century," says team director Robert Neyland, the U.S. Navy's chief underwater archaeologist. It may have been hit by Union fire. Or maybe it got stuck on the bottom and the crew opened the sea cocks in a suicide pact. Even if the mystery is never solved, however, the multimillion-dollar recovery will be deemed worthwhile. "This was the first successful submarine in warfare," says Neyland, "and it was the prototype for subs that...
...like the eruption that buried Pompeii two centuries earlier, the fire preserved a trove of mosaics, statuary and villas. Now Zeugma faces destruction again, this time from rising floodwaters of a hydroelectric project. "It is a wall-to-wall carpet of mosaics, richer and more important than Pompeii," laments archaeologist Mehmet Onal. For a brief moment last week, Turkish officials hinted that the ruins might get a temporary reprieve, but those hopes vanished when the contractor announced that each month's delay would add $30 million to the $1 billion project. For disappointed archaeologists the only recourse is to scramble...