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...River. Like all the known Olmec sites, San Lorenzo is much less impressive than the Mayan cities that dot the Yucatan peninsula to the east. One reason: it supported only a few thousand people, rather than 100,000 or more. The major buildings and plazas were little more than earthen mounds covered with grass, lacking any sort of masonry facade and probably topped with pole-and-thatch houses...
...ADOBE CHURCHES OF NEW MEXICO The largest assemblage of publicly used earthen buildings...
...House and Neighborhood Development) program; through the Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA), students are leading some 50 community-based enrichment, learning and service projects throughout Cambridge and greater Boston in addition to planning for 13 intensive summer programs; CityStep teaches and reaches Cambridge fifth graders through dance. Through Earthen Vessels, the Institute of Politics Community Action Committee, Education for Action and First-Year Community Services Program, many more students get involved. We estimate that two-thirds of our undergraduates participate in public service at some time during their Harvard career...
...Without the deep freeze, she'd have disintegrated long ago. Now she's on display in a cooler in Washington, courtesy of the National Geographic Society. It helped pay for the expedition that found her, high up in the Peruvian Andes. The body screamed "human sacrifice" from the start. Earthen tomb. Religious offerings--statuettes, coca leaves, corn. Typical sacrifice MO for the Inca, which is what she was. The location fits too: a volcano called Ampato. The Inca worshipped it as a god. Funny thing is, it was Ampato's eruption in 1995 that melted the glacier. Almost...
...shingled cottage in Sausalito a block from San Francisco Bay, Allende surrounds herself with mementos: Paula's baby shoes, encased in copper; photographs of her, framed in silver; the earthen jar that contains Paula's ashes; and a letter Paula wrote during her honeymoon, foreseeing her own death. Petite and intense, Allende pours mango tea by a vase of wildflowers in the sunlit room. "All my books come from deep emotion," she says. "They are not born in my mind, they gestate in my womb." Her eyes welling with tears, she spreads across the table the handcrafted cards she uses...