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...rich chapters in that saga. At Sardis, in western Turkey, a Harvard-Cornell N.Y.U. group has uncovered what is believed to be one of King Croesus' fabled gold refineries. In the barren desert of southeastern Iran, archaeologists from Harvard's Peabody Museum have found evidence of an extinct Middle Eastern city that was conquered by Alexander the Great during the latter part of its 5,500-year existence...
...sounds remarkably like political theory, a beast thought to be extinct in the modern world. In Bay's article, we read that "the proper purpose of politics is identical with the proper purpose of medicine: to postpone death and reduce suffering...
What's more, the Antarctic animal belonged to a group of long-extinct freshwater amphibians called Labyrinthodonts, which are known to have lived in both Australia and South Africa in the early Triassic period. The discovery thus lent support to those who believe that Antarctica, Australia, South America and India were once a single supercontinent, called "Gondwanaland,"* that broke up and drifted apart. Creatures like the labyrinthodonts, the continental drifters argue, would not have evolved separately on such isolated continents as Antarctica and Australia...
...clear grasp of its purpose. He has said, "Because of the conditions of the world we live in now, we must continue to seek one form of service--military duty--of our young men. We would be an irresponsible nation if we did not--and perhaps even an extinct...
Died. James L. B. Smith, 70, ichthyologist who first identified the coelacanth, a fish believed extinct for 70 million years; by his own hand (cyanide); in Grahamstown, South Africa. Until 1938, when a coelacanth was caught off the South African coast, scientists had seen it only in fossil form, a five-foot-long creature whose weird, leglike fins marked it a close relative of the amphibians that first linked sea and land animals. In the years since, a dozen coelacanths have been found, though Smith never realized his dream of studying one alive. His suicide did not surprise his wife...