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...sound can be heard in Mary Kate Brown's sixth- grade social studies classroom. The students are on a dig. Each group of three or four has been assigned a plot within an ancient Assyrian site. Their mission: to uncover what is at the site, to analyze carefully each artifact they find, then to formulate and defend a thesis about the nature of the place and the people who once lived there. Not even well-heeled Dalton can afford to take an entire class on an excavation in the Middle East, so these students are working on Archaeotype, a computer...
...about the same time that the three were being buried-give or take a few millenniums-a new sort of artifact begins to appear in the prehistorical record. Archaeologists working at sites all across Europe and well into Russia have found dozens of so-called Venus figurines: miniature sculptures of big-breasted, broad-hipped women. The statuettes, which may have been used in fertility rites or even religious ceremonies, suggest a worshipful attitude toward fertility and reproduction...
...first such disgrace. Four years ago, the National Museum of American Art produced an exhibition on America's westward expansion that mined every artifact for evidence of white racism and rapacity. Former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin called the show "perverse, historically inaccurate, destructive." These exhibits are not accidents. They reflect the extent to which the forces of political correctness and historical revisionism, having captured the universities, have now moved out to dominate our museums and other institutions of national culture...
...ashes of the estimated 1.5 million of Hitler's victims who died there--1.1 million Jews, 75,000 Poles and thousands of others including Gypsies, homosexuals and communists, targeted for annihilation by Hitler's minions. The camp is at once the world's largest cemetery and most gruesome industrial artifact. ``It was an experiment in how to kill the most people in the smallest area, in the least time, for the cheapest price,'' said Kurt Goldstein, a Berlin member of the International Auschwitz Committee. ``It was a killing machine. Persecutions are part of history. But the factory-like systematic extermination...
...baseball season may be jeopardized by thecontinuing standoff between owners and players. The owners plan on announcing next Monday at their meeting in Chicago that they are going to impose a salary cap on players, The Washington Post reported. "Last year's system is a historical artifact and we cannot operate under it any more," Atlanta Braves president Stan Kasten said Monday night. "Clubs have to do something by (December) 7th because from that point forward we're into next season with last year's economic system." With the players not planning to offer an alternative to the taxation plan...