Word: caving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of the world, it would have been a straightforward public-works project. A highway was too narrow to handle the increasing flow of traffic, so the authorities brought in heavy equipment to widen it. Partway through the job, however, a road-leveling tractor uncovered the opening to a cave no one knew was there. Work came to an immediate halt, and within hours a scientific swat team descended on the site to study...
...first, the Israelis who excavated the newly uncovered cave by the highway thought they'd found just that sort of evidence. Inside the rocky opening, located about 20 miles northwest of Jerusalem, were 23 burial containers filled with bones. A hasty analysis seemed to show that letters on one stone box spelled out part of the name Hasmonean, a family of Jewish patriots, also known as the Maccabees, whose encounter with a miraculous oil lamp is now celebrated in the lighting of Hannukah candles...
While Clinton was prepping Wednesday for an interview for the CBS Evening News, one of his advisers asked how the President would respond to a question about the political fallout from his refusal to cave in to G.O.P. demands. Summoning an answer he'd used on Gingrich days earlier in private, Clinton responded, "I don't care if my approval ratings drop all the way down to 5%; it's the right thing to do." Gore then piped up, "Why 5%? Why don't you say, 'All the way down to zero'?" Clinton joked in reply, "Well...
...million-year-old jawbone fragment, teeth and primitive tools found in a cave in central China support the theory that the ancestors of modern humans began migrating out of Africa hundreds of thousands of years earlier than once thought. Scientists believe the remains may belong to a species called Homo habilis, a precursor of Homo erectus...
...Tuesday. A shutdown, precipitated in part by Clinton's refusal to accept Republican budget priorities, could be a good thing for the President, Panetta and others offered. Their reasoning: it would prove to a skeptical public and embittered Democrats in Congress that he actually has principles and won't cave...