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...course of the protest, about 10 members of PSLM erected and staffed a welcoming table outside Byerly Hall, complete with flyers, chips and salsa, while the remaining 20 lined the corridor inside the admissions office, holding signs and speaking to pre-frosh...
...Americas' epic immigration saga, long taught in schools and enshrined in popular books. At the end of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago, brave Siberians walked across the Bering Sea land bridge, then edged their way south via a newly opened corridor in the ice and fanned out in all directions. Within 500 years, their descendants had settled most of the hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. Alas, as archaeologists have learned by digging up and down the Americas, this engaging tale may be wrong...
...Archaeology. Joseph McAvoy of the Nottoway River Survey and his colleagues disclosed that an ancient campsite known as Cactus Hill, 45 miles south of Richmond, Va., has been conclusively dated at around 18,000 years old. That predates the accepted timing for the opening of that crucial ice-free corridor and bolsters the theory that the earliest Americans came by sea, possibly even from across the Atlantic rather than from Asia. "If the dates hold up, and I think they will," says archaeologist Dennis Stanford of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, "this is probably some...
Yuri Kobaladze, a onetime KGB general turned businessman, says Putin's life changed when he bumped into former Leningrad law lecturer Anatoli Sobchak in a corridor early in 1990. Sobchak asked what he was doing. "I'm doing nothing," Putin replied. "My career's not a success because they told me to come back here. I have nothing to do here." "Join me," said Sobchak. Sobchak was dazzling the city with his promises of democracy and reform. Putin was ready to make a "real break," says a close Putin aide. "People had the feeling Sobchak was someone they could...
...rode one of the two daily Acela Regional trains Amtrak launched Jan. 31 as a rescue plan for beleaguered travelers along the busy Northeastern corridor. The concept--fast, comfortable rail service on this heavily trafficked route--is long overdue. But it's not quite there...