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Such brilliant success, according to popular wisdom, must have left dark and dreadful shadows. Biographer Vicki Goldberg, an art and photography critic, has indeed dug behind the Bourke-White legend to find some details that the daring camera girl chose not to develop in her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). But these snippets hardly amount to the negative image of a triumphant life. Bourke-White did not outdistance her wildest dreams; she plotted her course to the top, assessed the costs along the way and willingly paid them...
What they dug up was an impressive collection of "the world's tiniest dinosaurs," but one member of the Canadian Parliament has charged that their handling of the saber-toothed crocodiles, fish and footprints was more than a tiny bit illegal. He claims the scientists--a Columbia University professor and a Harvard graduate student--brought their find back to Cambridge in violation of Canadian legislation...
UMASS, BOSTON. The University of Massachusetts at Boston has a campus dug out of a harborside dump site and faces ferocious competition for students and faculty; some 55 other nearby colleges and universities, most of them private and including Harvard and M.I.T., tend to gobble up any good academic body...
...front is five to six miles wide. Iranian troops are dug in around a massive evaporator system used for making salt. It is a complex network of ponds, retainer walls and narrow approaches that is well suited for Iranian defenses. Iraq's Soviet-made tanks are unable to advance along the narrow roads and soft levees leading to the town. When tanks do get into position, they are badly exposed and easily crippled by fire from Iranian rocket- propelled grenades. Should the Iraqis succeed in driving the Iranians out of the salt evaporator, notes a Western military observer, "they will...
Until a few weeks ago, the Fao Peninsula in southeastern Iraq was a sparsely inhabited outpost of little interest to anyone. By last week it had become the locus of some of the fiercest fighting in the Iran-Iraq war, as Iraqi troops mounted a blistering counterattack against dug-in Iranian invaders. By week's end Iran still held its grip on the peninsula. And neighboring Arab sheikdoms began to wonder whether Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had lost the initiative on the battlefield to the Iranian juggernaut...