Word: clay
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Based on their performances in last month's NCAA championships, the men of Longhorn Aquatics Swim Team (LAST) would also look to be pushing for top honors in their division, but key absences are going to dim their chances as well. Clay Britt, the reigning NCAA champion in the 100-yd. backstroke, will definitely not be here this week. Also notably absent will be Scott Spann, who has been invited to travel with a team to South Africa. Other outstanding Longhorn men such as Kris Kirchner, Nick Nevid, and William Paulus will probably swim, but their status is not definite...
...that Arab antiquity shops in the Old City of Jerusalem-just conquered by Israeli troops-were stocked with ancient Egyptian artifacts. When Dothan asked where they came from, the dealers specified Hebron, in the mountains south of Jerusalem. That was clearly a tall tale; some of the artifacts-jewelry, clay masks, even coffins-still bore grains of yellow Mediterranean sand...
Wise Blood. John Huston, at his eccentric best, adapts the Flannery O'Connor tale about a Godforsaken evangelist. For red-clay craziness -weird, scary and funny-this...
...endless sky, with gophers and prairie dogs scampering across the two-lane road and magpies fluttering overhead. Go down into southeastern Utah and head toward Moab. Take a right at the entrance to Canyonlands National Park and proceed along the paved road until it turns into a red clay rut. You are going along at 30 miles an hour, then 20, then 15. The road dips and rises, twists and turns. The car clatters, the body shakes. Finally, Grand View Point comes in sight. Walk to the edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast...
...demonic. The Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, who was himself considered rather demonic, gave lectures on the creation of a homunculus and even offered a recipe of ingredients, including human blood and putrefied semen. In 16th century Prague, too, the devout Rabbi Judah Loew was reported to have created out of clay a giant robot known as a golem. This figure, which came to life when a tablet with a divine name, shem, was placed in its mouth, was supposed to protect the Jews from persecution, but some accounts claim that its masters tried to use it for unworthy purposes, and others...