Word: flints
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...Jean Auel's books have sold 34 million copies, but she can still walk into Starbucks without turning heads, and unlike a certain teen star with similar pull, she won't be caught prancing around with a snake on her shoulders. Skinning it with a flint knife would be more her style: Auel is the author of the Neolithic saga The Clan of the Cave Bear and its four sequels...
Fast-forward to 2001. Korpi, who before retirement had roamed no farther from Flint, Mich., than Mexico and Canada, is an international troubleshooter who analyzes plant operations and car dealerships in places like Indonesia, Thailand and China. In November 1999, he hooked up with Jefferson Wells International, a firm that places auditors, accountants and other specialists in temporary assignments. The jobs are fulfilling and lucrative. Yet he manages to play plenty of golf. His GM buddies are amazed. So is Korpi: "I still can't believe I asked for the extra 15 days to think about...
...Eastern Baltic, for instance, foragers traded seal fat, amber, slate and flint for the farmers' pottery and grain. In coastal regions where oysters or other shellfish were plentiful, foragers felt no particular compulsion to take up the tasks of horticulture. Where farming did spread, he says, it was often through a process of gradual adoption by hunter-gatherers rather than continual migration of farmers. "Gene flow just doesn't correspond to the cultural patterns," he says...
This every-which-way process has been at work ever since the first prehistoric flint pebble was knapped into a butchering tool. Until about 500 years ago, however, innovation in a world moving at the speed of agriculture came infrequently, giving time for accommodation and a complacent sense of establishment. Then Columbus rediscovered America, and suddenly the rug was pulled out from under every form of Western authority. America had figured neither in the Bible nor in Aristotle, so what was it doing there? Then, within a few decades, returning with explorers from east and west came a flood...
...Quoth the Times: "By the time he arrived this evening in Flint, Mich., Mr. Gore was punchy from exhaustion, his face puffy and pink, with rivulets of sweat meandering down his cheek. He sucked on lozenges as he spoke, but they did little to soothe his hoarseness." Gore also thanked "Rogers Hornsby" and his band for warming up the crowd before a Dearborn rally...