Word: artifacts
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...Austrian glacier. It was one of the year's most popular stories. Last year she repeated the experience with a cover updating the conventional wisdom about dinosaurs; Alexander has had similar success with a cover exploring the dawn of life. Notes Wallis: "If you have a new artifact to look at -- the skull of an early hominid, the talon of a velociraptor -- you can engage in a thrilling kind of time traveling. Add some evocative writing, and readers can be transported...
...economic circumstance but also by her gender. Lorraine Toussaint, a major star waiting for discovery, embodies erotic power and deep pain. The final words of Matura's play are lifted straight from Synge. Toussaint makes them agonizingly her own, proving anew that English is not just a cultural artifact but a potent instrument for use by any artist...
These critics fail to realize that the value-free model of education, which separates "objective" knowledge from "personal" beliefs, is an artifact of the self-same secular/pluralist society which religious schools are founded to counteract...
...Ivory Coast, Swiss biologist Christophe Boesch points out a flat piece of granite with two small hollows on the top. The rock has marks from heavy use for some purpose. "If an anthropologist came upon this in the forest," says Boesch, "he might think he had found a human artifact." Instead, it is used by chimpanzees for nut cracking. The chimps place a panda nut in one of the depressions and then smash it with a smaller stone. Boesch has watched a mother chimp instruct her young in the art of nut cracking...
While this is a universal theme, the approach is in danger of becoming outdated and reductive, a quaint artifact requiring occasional excavation, interesting for its historical worth but ultimately failing to translate into a contemporary relevance...