Word: caving
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...earliest blankets that survive date from the late 18th century, mostly coarsely woven fragments that are striped in the natural sheep's wool colors of brown and white. Some of these were found by anthropologists in Canon del Muerto ("Massacre Cave"), where a number of Navajo families were slaughtered by Spanish soldiers in 1805. The relics lay undisturbed for years because the Navajos feared spiritual contamination by the dead...
...hours. There is one serious hitch, he reports in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Because the rate at which amino acids change their configuration varies significantly with heat, the temperature history of the specimen must be taken into account. Still, if an object has been sheltered in a cave or buried in the ocean floor, that should not be a great problem: the fossil is not likely to have undergone any great temperature variations that would upset the age calculations...
...went to Barbara Manschreck for her poem "On the Evolution of Phenomena or What Crazy Maggie Shouted to the Pigeons." Barbara has done graduate work in English and is currently studying theology at the Boston Theological Institute. Third prize and $10 went to Laura Freedgood for her poem "Cave." She has done graduate work in English and is now enrolled in the M.A.T. program at Harvard...
...half ounce and seldom more than 1½ ounces-the common vampire has made it economically impractical to raise cattle or horses in large areas from central Mexico to central Argentina. Efforts to destroy Desmodus rotundus by such crude methods as dynamiting or using flamethrowers in his cave roosts have proved too costly, inefficient, and disastrous for neighboring populations of beneficial, insect-eating bats...
Well Groomed. Shocked, the bat returns to his roost in a cave, hollow tree or old building, and licks as much of the goo off his back as he can. In the process he poisons himself fatally. Other vampires come to help groom him, and so poison themselves. A single smeared bat has been found to cause, on the average, the death of 20 others, sometimes as many...