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...fires out. But the Kosovo conflagration he first lighted in 1989--by stripping away the rights of the ethnic Albanians who make up 90% of the province's population--is proving tricky to put out. Now he faces a perilous calculus: Is it riskier to cave in to Western demands or to suffer through air strikes...
...Bedouin shepherds find Dead Sea Scrolls hidden in clay jars in Israel's Qumran Cave, overlooking the Dead...
...French boys searching for their dog stumble onto the Lascaux cave, whose walls are covered with spectacular paintings and engravings dating from...
...Ironstone Vineyards; and the giant sequoias, members of the world's largest living species, in Calaveras Big Trees State Park. Twain visited Bret Harte, another gold-rush writer, at Harte's cabin near California Caverns, where, according to local lore, Twain spelunked and found inspiration for the cave in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Nearby Columbia State Historic Park is one of California's best-preserved gold-rush towns, with many original buildings...
Some seniors, lamenting the fact that none of us organized an Alternative Senior Gift Fund this year, will either not give at all or will cave and write their $10 checks to Harvard. But there is an alternative senior gift fund--several thousand of them. They are the charities in Cambridge, Boston and farther afield that can really use your $10 or more--that really do have needs. Ironically, Massachusetts--home to the University with the largest endowment in the world and the seventh richest non-profit in the U.S. as of 1996--ranked last among the 50 states last...