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...expedition for the Peabody’s Corpus of Mayan Hieroglyphic Inscriptions in 2001. At the San Bartolo site in the northeastern Peten region of Guatemala, several tunnels and trenches, originally dug by looters, run under a larger pyramid. Saturno was seeking shade in one such tunnel when his flashlight revealed the corner of a wall painting. “In Western terms, it’s like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo or a Leonardo,” Saturno, who is also an assistant professor of archeology at the University of New Hampshire, said...
...Sure, that's exactly the kind of unconventional scheduling you'd expect from a place that advertises workshops in such arcana as "ecopsychology" and "transpersonal process." But when you drive up in the dead of night and let a lone security guard with a small flashlight lead you through the estate to the edge of the cliffs, the brilliance of it all becomes plain. As you lounge in your hot tub, the stars, the sound of waves and the all-enveloping night elevate what by daylight would be a pleasant experience into an intensely poetic...
...explains. The two young receptionists eye this FM reporter, who is feverishly taking down notes and has forgotten to show ID, suspiciously. “He’s with me,” the officer says with a chuckle. 8:53 p.m.: Wielding a flashlight, Fumicello creeps into a darkened alley alongside Claverly Hall. A chain-link fence surrounds the construction site of the old Hasty Pudding theatre. Ominous shadows shroud a grimy, uneven pathway. The graffiti that adorns a sullied white wall reads: “rock bottom.” Indeed. 9:21 p.m.: A preppily-dressed...
...Katrina's most important take-home message: survivors of a major emergency will probably need to fend for themselves for the first few days after calamity strikes. The goal is to get as many San Franciscans as possible to assemble--and keep current--a basic emergency kit, including a flashlight, a transistor radio, spare batteries, canned goods and, above all, enough water to last at least three days. "If Hurricane Katrina didn't prove it to you, I don't know what will," says Newsom. "When disaster strikes, we're all going to be on our own for a minimum...
...stove to deep-fry the frozen chicken as it thawed, and celebrating her niece Nakisha Washington's 29th birthday by opening a Jack Daniels Down Home Punch cooler that had floated by. But the waters around the building refused to recede, so day and night Curtis would flick a flashlight at helicopters when they passed. It was that light that alerted Tarchick?s team on Thursday evening...