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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the underground room, the diggers found a wheeled bronze couch adorned with geometric patterns and supported by eight figurines, each 30 cm (12 in.) high, in positions of adoration. On the couch lay the skeleton of a powerful man, nearly 2 meters (about 6 ft.) tall and between 30 and 40 years of age, obviously a chief. Encircling his neck was a gold-covered wooden band that was probably a symbol of royalty. At his feet was a heavy bronze kettle more than a meter in diameter, decorated with three lions. Imported from Greece, the kettle had apparently been...
...hoaxer been found...
Sollas apparently decided to strike back by playing on Smith Woodward's credulity; he showed a tendency to accept purported new scientific findings as fact before they were rigorously proved. The ploy worked. Shortly after the planted Piltdown remains were found, Smith Woodward enthusiastically staked his reputation on the authenticity of the find. In fact, in a painting that still hangs in the Geological Society's London headquarters, Smith Woodward is one of several eminent scientists shown intensively examining the supposedly precious skull. What is more, he is pictured right next to its "discoverer," an amateur fossil hunter...
...back up these testimonials, Psychologist Alan Abrams, a ten-year practitioner of TM, tested the emotions and psyches of 120 Folsom inmates, half of whom were meditators. Using a battery of psychological and personality tests, he found that neuroticism among the meditators decreased 50% on the average, hostility 22%, anxiety 60% and suspicion 27%. No significant changes were recorded for the nonmeditators. Perhaps the most convincing statistic of all is that out of 58 meditators who have been released from Folsom over the past two years, only two have returned. Folsom's average recidivism fate is 15% for prisoners...
...fact, tempers seem to be getting worse, not better. Yankee businessmen complain that they are still all but shut out of the Japanese market, and more and more of the American consumers who buy the goods that the Japanese export with such zeal seem to agree. Pollster Louis Harris found that a strong (64%) majority are persuaded that the U.S. is getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries. Today a good many Americans would applaud the exasperation confessed by John Nevin, chairman of Zenith Corp., in the latest Harvard Business Review. Says he: "The question...