Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fash's main work is with the excavation of Copan in Honduras. The Copan Project is a Mayan dig whose contentsdate from the classic period...
...fact, we've been part of the Faculty ofArts and Science program, to reduce the number offull teaching equivalencies," he said. "We havelost a total of five positions in the last threeyears. We have had to reorganize, to ask staffmembers to dig in deeper...
...type of ant studied, the so-called driverants, dig up to six feet deep and live with up to20 million sisters, according to the documentary.In fact, some "defense soldier" ants are studiedby the US Department of Defense...
...young girl, her parents, grandmother and great-grandmother. ``Until about 7 last night,'' a bystander said, ``we could hear the little girl calling okasan, okasan [mother, mother].'' But the fatigued firemen, performing a kind of triage, ignored the dwelling for easier rescues nearby. Now, as they began to dig, the crumpled house was silent. Alone in its rubble stood a large bronze statue of Kannon, a female representation of the Buddha; her name means ``the one who hears cries...
...some neighborhoods, the resumption of running water reduced the prospect of disease. Makers of goods ranging from helicopters to lingerie donated wares (the local yakuza had already turned themselves into neighborhood godfathers by dispensing necessities in their district), and tractors and cranes began working day and night to dig out victims and remove the huge hulk of the collapsed highway...