Word: columbia
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...decades, at least, and probably longer. James Chatters, an anthropologist based in Kennewick, Washington, could tell that much from just a quick examination of the cranium and broken jawbone the coroner brought him last July. But Chatters wanted to know more. So he went to the banks of the Columbia River, where two college students had come across the skull, and managed to find most of the skeleton. The arm and leg bones suggested that the dead man came from genetic stock very different from that of the Indians who have lived in that part of the country for centuries...
...body goes into the ground, that's where it stays." Under the Native American Graves Protection Act of 1990, museums and scientists must give Native American remains back to the tribes they came from. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over the banks of the Columbia, is prepared to comply. "It's sort of like the burning of the library at Alexandria," says Grover Krantz, an anthropology professor at Washington State University and one of only three scientists to have studied the remains...
...Volleyball at Columbia...
...this process, Columbus became adopted as the quintessential American. King's College in New York City became Columbia University, the town of Columbia, South Carolina, was founded and Washington Irving wrote The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, "portraying Christopher Columbus as a hero," Lively says...
...progressive fare system, which charges more for longer trips. He also left his mark on the auction houses of the world, where a sealed bid "Vickrey auction" has the highest bidder only paying the next-highest offer. Vickrey earned a master's in economics from Columbia in 1937 and a doctorate in 1948. After winning the prize, he was invigorated, telling journalists "Forty-five years is a long time to wait for your ideas to take hold."-->