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...museum demonstrating that by 380-350 B.C. Thracian craftsmen could produce a similarly ornamental piece of jewelry. From a tomb at Urasta came a pair of gold earrings complete with rosettes, tendrils, and beads suspended--doubtless they were too heavy to wear every day (they were five cm. long)--but they still conjure up images of perfumed favorites in whispering silk: the same kind of romanticized seraglio as Ingres depicted...
...process, Schmandt-Besserat believes, evolved in four stages. In the first, which ran from about 8500 B.C.-the date of the oldest tokens found-to around 3500 B.C., the small (up to 5 cm., or 2 in., in diameter) cones, disks, spheres and pellets represented such commodities as sheep, jugs of oil, bread or clothing and were used by merchants and others in the Middle East to keep records. In the second stage, merchants shipping goods from one place to another began enclosing tokens in sealed clay balls known as bullae, which were broken open upon delivery so the shipment...
Fading Light. Astronomers have known of the existence of the star -dubbed MWC 349-since the 1930s. But it was not until this past year that researchers studying the star through the 2.3-meter (90 in.) infra-red telescope at Arizona's Steward Observatory and the 91-cm. (36 in.) infra-red scope in Ames' Kuiper Airborne Observatory, realized how unusual it was. In simultaneous observations, the scientists discovered that the star, already ten times the size and 30 times the mass of the sun, was surrounded by a great glowing disc some 224 million km. (approximately...
...find tumors. But such waves are rapidly absorbed by bodily tissue; thus tumors that lie any distance below the skin's surface cannot be readily picked up by infra-red sensors. By contrast, microwaves-which are much longer and more penetrating-can locate tumors up to 10 cm. (4 in.) below the surface...
...course of the disease, the blood of some victims revealed telltale proteins called cryoglobulins,* which may be linked to an immune reaction, and have also been found in such known viral infections as hepatitis B and infectious mononucleosis. More intriguing still, the large red skin patches-up to 50 cm. (20 in.) in diameter-seemed to have erupted at the actual site of tick bites...