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Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching desert canyons near the Dead Sea. Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Essenes ever existed at all - a claim that has shaken the bedrock of biblical scholarship...
After Christine Ross moved into a brand new home on the southwestern fringe of Albuquerque last fall, she and her three-year-old sharpei-labrador mix, Ruca, went for a walk nearly every evening. Usually, they would venture inside a cinderblock wall where the spiny desert scrub had been smoothed over in preparation for a housing development that never materialized. That's where they were walking a month ago when Ruca spotted what to a dog is considered a treasure: a bone jutting from the sandy soil. Ross had an uneasy feeling about the find, however. She snapped a photograph...
...better than expected" and whatever gravity had been holding stocks down disappeared. The news about GE shows how perverse the market has become and also serves as a reminder of how stock investors and economists can be blinded by a drop of water in what is otherwise obviously a desert. There is no circumstance under which a downgrade of GE's debt is good news. It just seems that way when the world is dark...
...jewelry is a love affair. I never thought of it as a business. But each time I visited Europe, I thought my work was better than what I found there." Macdonald nods. "All of a sudden, Western girls are attracted to this brand from the middle of the desert," he says. "They're saying, 'My God, I have to have that...
...Lieutenant Colonel Darren T. Hansen is a career fighter pilot for the Air Force who flew in Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. During the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was in the midst of a staff tour at U.S. Central Command, the agency that oversees operations in the Middle East, and witnessed the development of the American response firsthand...