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...Leonard Carmichael, 74, scientist, educator and the former secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. During his 11 years with the Smithsonian, Carmichael expanded and modernized "the nation's attic," and later, as vice president of the National Geographic Society, he sponsored the work of Archaeologist Louis S.B. Leakey and Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau...
...story bank building in downtown Nashville two years ago, a sharp-eyed workman spotted something strange in the limestone debris-an ivory-colored, banana-shaped object that looked like a miniature elephant tusk. Bank officials, hearing of the odd discovery, quickly called in an amateur archaeologist, Robert Ferguson, who immediately recognized the find. It was a fossilized fang from a saber-toothed tiger, an extinct, ferocious-looking creature that once stalked wide areas of the Americas...
Many Israelis object to the strong influence of orthodoxy on the country's laws and mores. "After 25 years," says Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, "we have reached the point where, for a majority of our citizens, the rabbinical authority over our way of life is third in importance after defense and the economy. Most Israelis want a pluralistic system whereby those who want to be governed by religious law can voluntarily do so, and those who want secular law in matters of personal affairs can accept that...
...militancy and militarism can blur the fine edge of moral responsibility and idealism. Biblical Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, a former army Chief of Staff, concedes that one of Israel's greatest challenges is to secure the nation's spiritual imperatives while at the same time trying to preserve its physical existence. Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig puts the matter in a different way: "The contest between the mystique of violence and the mystique of redemption is the most fateful and crucial conflict on which the future of Israeli society depends...
...face carvings are ripped away with carbide-toothed power saws; cruder thieves use hammers, wedges or fire to split the irreplaceable sculptures into fragments for easy transport. In March 1971, Archaeologist Ian Graham, a research fellow in Middle American archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, entered La Naya, a Mayan site in Guatemala; looters opened fire, killing his guide Pedro Sierra. In Costa Rica, says Dr. Dwight Heath of Brown University, who spent a Fulbright year there in 1968-69, "One percent of the labor force was involved in illicit traffic in antiquities-which means there are more bootleggers...