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...musty chill of the Dordogne, 30 ft. below ground, giant bulls, painted in red and black, gallop across undulating walls. Nearby, a cavalcade of horses, ibex, tiny deer and cave lions dances along the curves of rough limestone. Are these soaring images sacred or profane? A large bespectacled woman closes her eyes and sighs in wonder. She imagines a time, perhaps 20,000 years ago, when rituals were performed in this same hidden cave in the flickering light of animal-fat lamps. Slowly, tears stream down her cheeks. "It's like a church," she whispers. "You feel you can understand...
...have tried harder than Jean Auel, the Oregon chronicler of Ice Age romance, to fathom the mysteries of Cro-Magnon life. From her 1980 best seller, The Clan of the Cave Bear, through three popular sequels, including the just-published The Plains of Passage, Auel has fleshed out the stone-and- bone discoveries of archaeology to create a fully realized world for her prehistoric heroine, Ayla. In the latest 757-page volume, Ayla sets forth from her home among the Mammoth Hunters of the Eurasian steppes and, braving blizzards, a locust swarm and a fall into a glacier crevasse, reaches...
...hearths were spaced, seeking hints on how families may have guarded their privacy. "This will be Jondalar's apartment building," she says. At Font-de-Gaume, a grotto of magnificent prehistoric artwork, she examines a painting of a wolf: "I have a feeling this will be Ayla's cave." It fits, since the adventurer travels with a wolf, albeit one she has trained to behave uncannily like a golden retriever...
...recognize that "not all teachings are equally authoritative -- and some are wrong." And while major institutions like Notre Dame might be immune to the pressure of a conservative local bishop, McBrien says that "a right-wing bishop could move in on a smaller institution, and the board would cave in." The key question is whether the decree's ambiguous language will inspire any bishops to do just that...
...policy now being debated in Washington seeks to maximize international support for war while minimizing the loss of allied life. Some believe maintaining multinational solidarity requires an ultimatum to Saddam: Cave in by such and such a date, or we come at you with everything we've got. Sounds good, but . . . "The problem with a clear warning," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy professor, "is that it could cause Iraq to strike pre-emptively, and pre-emption is a card we may want to play ourselves. For Saddam this is World War III. He wins...