Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps the desert women will be so frozen when they arrive up here that the Crimson can notch another...
...program's communications director: "I was having a field day. The thing had started too fast. Doctors weren't getting paid. There were cost overruns. I was sending reporters over here almost every day to get stories of trouble." Corrupt and incompetent managed-care partnerships bloomed in the desert...
...record of this monumental event appears in Egyptian chronicles of the time, and Israeli archaeologists combing the Sinai during intense searches from 1967 to 1982 - years when Israel occupied the peninsula - didn't find a single piece of evidence backing the Israelites' supposed 40-year sojourn in the desert...
Instead, argues Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein, the settlement of the Promised Land was a gradual process over a long period, and involved people both from within Canaan and from outside. "Some came from the Hittite country, some from the desert to the east and some from the south," he says. "I would also accept the idea that a core emanated from Egypt, and these people brought with them the idea of monotheism." Only after they had united in a sort of tribal league did they become the Israelites, and while they undoubtedly fought their neighbors for territory...
...offered by the Hubble Space Telescope [SPACE, Nov. 20] are absolutely fabulous! They clearly reflect the glory and majesty of God in the ongoing process of creation. We must acknowledge our insignificance in the presence of such power and stand in awe at the spectacle. CHARLES G. VOELKER Palm Desert, California Via E-mail...