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...main clue was the way the dirt in one part of the excavated site abruptly changed color. Sandwiched between two strips of dark red-orange dirt was an unexpected layer of gray. This, the class concluded, could be none other than evidence for one wall of the Indian College, a school Harvard had established in 1655 for the education and Christianization of Native Americans. The building is believed to have been located perpendicular to the edge of what is now Matthews...
...October, Daniel Balmori '11, a Government concentrator, found a slate pencil while casually digging through the dirt. He said that slate pencils, which were used to draft messages before transferring them to ink and paper, were the only academic artifacts uncovered at the site. What else was found? Evidence of other, less admirable activities...
...decide, according to their values," says Gelber. But signs point to housework as becoming less valuable to all levels of society; new data even suggests an ultra-clean home may not be the best environment for children. According to anthropologists at Northwestern University, a lack of exposure to dirt and germs could put them at increased risk for inflammation when they grow up. So next time, you feel bad about your messy home, remember that it's good for the children - and that it's the IRS's fault...
Other holiday-card designers are downright caustic. Order of St. Nick, based in Davenport, Iowa, has a Depressing Times section, which includes a card with a stark black-and-white photo of a man with tattered clothing, a dirt-smudged face and a thought bubble that reads, "The more I drink, the less I care that we lost our home in the subprime mortgage crisis." Another of its Dust Bowl-era holiday cards features a woman wrapping a gift. "I made you a Christmas present!" reads the front cover. On the inside: "But I had to burn...
...night of the crash, two F-15Es, which specialize in ground-attack missions, had spent close to three hours supporting grunts near the Pakistan border. But on their way back home to Bagram air base, they decided to practice high-angle strafing runs against 7-ft. dirt mounds in the middle of a dry lake bed. While they wouldn't actually fire their 20mm guns, the pilots had decided to practice one of the Air Force's most dangerous missions - diving toward the ground amid mountains on a dark night. Their heavy night-vision goggles, which work by amplifying existing...