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Unlike its Mayan counterparts, though, Teotihuacan has yielded very few inscriptions, and those are in a hieroglyphic language that archaeologists have not yet been able to decipher. The city's celebrated painted murals don't provide many clues either. "There are very few glimpses of daily life," complains Arizona State University anthropologist George Cowgill. The best information scientists have to date comes from a series of mass graves discovered about a decade ago in the so-called Feathered Serpent Pyramid by Cowgill, his Arizona State colleague Saburo Sugiyama and Ruben Cabrera of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: City Of The Gods | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...assistance (if not lack of libraries themselves) and fear of controversy all help push teachers toward outdated or bland book choices. Those who fight back with verve risk being drummed out of a job or even chased into court. And the old reliable volumes aren't necessarily a refuge either. Such classics as The Grapes of Wrath and Catcher in the Rye are still frequently the object of parental protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Johnny Can't Read | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...score of 4 or 5 on the A.P. Biology exam exempts a student from the Science B requirement. Students can choose either exemption, but not both...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty Council Nixes Science Core Exemption | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

...those of you on the brink of graduation, consider spending a year or two (or a lifetime, for that matter) working for our future, either at PIRG or elsewhere. The opportunities at PIRG are varied and exciting-check us out at the Office of Career Services or at www.pirg.org...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Public Service Jobs offer Their Own Brand of Success | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

...hobbled by the calendar, says Carney. They don't want to impeach Clinton Christmas week or New Year's week, and they don't want the impeachment vote to slip over into the new Congress next month. Washington is now playing the endgame of a chess match in which either side could suddenly declare checkmate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House to Debate Impeachment Friday | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

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