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...what may be the most important of these discoveries, a team of archaeologists uncovered a 9th century B.C. inscription at an ancient mound called Tel Dan, in the north of Israel, in 1993. Words carved into a chunk of basalt refer to the "House of David" and the "King of Israel." It is the first time the Jewish monarch's name has been found outside the Bible, and appears to prove he was more than mere legend...
...Ceres. Daniels replaces Shakespeare's masques with new ones written and composed by Odland with the help of anthropologist David Guss. These masques, performed by Europe, Americas, and Africa, are intended to represent themes of nature and multiculturalism to a modern audience. Unfortunately, Daniels' masques replace a considerable chunk of the original text: but then again, Shakespeare's masques never got an audience to clap along...
...hour later and he might not have noticed the rock, much less stooped to pick it up. But the early morning sunlight slanting across the Namibian desert in southwestern Africa happened to illuminate momentarily some strange squiggles on a chunk of sandstone. At first Douglas Erwin, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, wondered if the meandering markings might be dried-up curls of prehistoric sea mud. But no, he decided after studying the patterns for a while, these were burrows carved by a small, wormlike creature that arose in long-vanished subtropical seas - an archaic organism that...
...G.O.P. Governors and the U.S. Conference of Bishops, Dole was able to save several nutrition programs as federal entitlements and modify three of the harshest provisions of the House's welfare-reform bill. His changes: Dole managed to ensure that the states would have to maintain a hefty chunk of their own welfare spending as a precondition for the receipt of federal funds; by leaving it to the states to decide, he blunted the House's insistence that cash assistance be denied to welfare moms under 18; and the "state option" compromise was invoked again on the question of denying...
...Harvard basically said that this is all we can do for you. My parents make just enough to make tuition possible, and as it is, it's a big chunk of what my parents make," he says. "We have to make adjustments. It was different, feeling as though I was treated like any other student...