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...Mongols were indeed good at all that. But thanks in part to recent archaeological finds in the arid lands of Inner Mongolia, now part of China, historians have begun to realize this perception of the medieval Mongols is woefully one-dimensional. Genghis Khan, their most celebrated leader, was not merely a bloodthirsty killer but also a supreme military strategist and talented politician, as adept at forging alliances and gathering intelligence as he was at wreaking terror and havoc. And the Mongol civilization he ruled had a rich cultural and artistic heritage that went back at least 6,000 years...
...Coen brothers serve up a handsome but arid fable...
History was sealed less with paper and pens than with a brief handshake that was caught in the click of hundreds of cameras, a scene beamed to millions of people in a world nurtured for 45 years on a diet of hate and death in the arid lands of Israelis and Arabs. This, more than the Declaration of Principles, was the affirmation of a new era that watchers could believe. The parchment signed out on the lawn was a framework for interim Palestinian self- government, and it was for the archives, a document meant to bind Israel and the Palestine...
...storm. But we're not immune." For another, the region's scarcity of water poses as much of a challenge as it always has. The northern tier of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, with plentiful rivers and low population density, expects no problem satisfying its pockets of growth. The semi-arid southern tier of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, however, has to give water high priority...
...plausible places for early human settlement of the Americas, Pedra Furada, located in a region of dramatic sandstone cliffs in the arid outback of northeastern Brazil, is probably the most exciting -- and most disputed. When archaeologist Niede Guidon of the School for the Advanced Study of Social Sciences in Paris first excavated the site in 1978, she found cave paintings, ash-filled hearths and what she believes are stone tools that are at least 30,000 and perhaps more than 50,000 years old. Says Guidon: "I was the first person to be surprised. I believed the standard theories." Each...