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...Hawass's team has explored four tombs, with a total of 105 mummies laid on top of one another in neat stacks. All told, the remains were interred in four distinct ways. One type was covered with a thin layer of gold. Another lay under lifelike masks made of plaster-coated linen, or cartonnage, that was painted with scenes of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Valley Of The Lost Tombs | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

When a tennis pro is looking for something to take his mind off tennis, calling Shields every night might do it. Andre swooned, wed and swooned again, eventually bottoming out in 1997 at a world ranking of 141. "I made a distinct choice for my life, and I don't regret that at all," Agassi says. "I'm responsible for what I did--not Brooke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Open: The Many Faces Of Agassi | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...COMMENT] May be an early form of H. habilis; if a distinct species, it's the earliest known member of our genus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family: | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Homo line and eventually led to modern humans. The fossil record is far too spotty to say how Homo habilis (handy man) and other members of its genus--H. rudolfensis, H. ergaster and H. erectus--were related, to what extent they overlapped or even whether they all represent distinct species. Many scientists believe, though, that it was H. erectus that was the ultimate victor, the direct ancestor of our own species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...clever 32-bit operating system called Epoc, which has legions of devotees, just like Palm's OS. Epoc, you should know, was developed by a consortium called Symbian (which includes Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola), and is being positioned as the standard for next-generation cell phones--a distinct possibility since those manufacturers produce 80% of the world's mobile phones. That's probably why Microsoft referred to Psion as its "No. 1 global threat" in an internal memo last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Palmy Import | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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