Word: coral
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...decision that sets a dangerous precedent for the rest of us. Our profession is under fire enough as it is, in the U.S. and around the world. We don't need media outlets to act more like corporations answering to shareholders than like journalists answering to readers. Patricia Mazzei Coral Gables, Florida, U.S. U.S. Supreme Court Changes Will president George W. Bush's nomination of John G. Roberts to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as Supreme Court Justice [July 18] serve to unify America, or will it lead to a confrontational crisis? The U.S.'s Founding Fathers gave Supreme Court...
...decision that sets a dangerous precedent for the rest of us. Our profession is under fire enough as it is, in the U.S. and around the world. We don't need media outlets to act more like corporations answering to shareholders than like journalists answering to readers. Patricia Mazzei Coral Gables, Florida...
...lies curled up as if only asleep, knees drawn to her chest, arms wrapped around them, tucked snugly in a nook between the coral boulders. But this woman is long dead, and her bones are as white as the coral branches that have crept among them like tree roots. Around her, lying in other cavities in the sharp rock and covered by volcanic ash, are the resting places of more human bones, all arranged in different positions of repose. Bats wheel above on the wind, which rushes through the coconut palms and sets the blue tarpaulin covering the graves flapping...
...with their legs apart or face down, a fate sometimes associated in ancient burials with those guilty of awful crimes. One female was found laid carefully on her back, with all her vertebrae in place but her ribs and one foot missing; another had its feet resting on a coral shelf. These skeletons too were headless; some had had their clavicles removed as well. Teeth sprinkled around the top of the spines suggest that the skulls were dug up at least a year after the dead were buried, by which time the teeth would have come loose. While clavicles...
...pottery across the area. But just below the churned surface, in some places just five centimeters from the bulldozer's tracks, the finds started. When these people were buried, their graves lay near the shoreline of a beach, and the area is still littered with a ghostly confetti of coral and shell. Since then, earthquakes have pushed the shore about 800 m away, and the burial ground is now on private land used in recent times for cattle grazing, surrounded by a green tide of dense bush, vine and coconut palms. Some time later a village, now vanished, sprang...