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...centuries, the road to Ubar appeared to be blotted out forever. T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") dreamed of locating the lost city, which he called "the Atlantis of the sands," but did not live to carry out the search. Others launched fruitless expeditions in 1947 and 1953. But last week a pair of archaeological amateurs in California announced that they had found the site through the use of ancient clues and space-age gadgetry...
...innate mental differences between the sexes. In the 19th century, biologists held that a woman's brain was too small for intellect but large enough for household chores. When the tiny-brain theory bit the dust (elephants, after all, have bigger brains than men), scientists began a long, fruitless attempt to locate the biological basis of male superiority in various brain lobes and chromosomes. By the 1960s sociobiologists were asserting that natural selection, operating throughout the long human prehistory of hunting and gathering, had predisposed males to leadership and exploration and females to crouching around the campfire with the kids...
...according to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, who described the incident in November testimony before Congress, after several fruitless days Bailey came up empty-handed. Then, Cheney testified, Bailey had second thoughts. Perhaps, he suggested, the picture had been taken in Burma. Bailey now claims he was set up by Cheney. The Pentagon, he insists, drove a wedge between him and his mysterious source by getting to the man first and convincing him that Bailey was attempting to cheat him out of a sizable reward for his information...
North Korean Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk sounded anything but upbeat as he described the mood of "gloom" after 15 months of fruitless discussions between Pyongyang and Seoul. But at the fifth round of talks last week, Yon's spirits took a sudden upturn when his South Korean host and counterpart, Chung Won Shik, dropped an unexpected secret: removal of the last American nuclear weapon on Korean soil was complete. That announcement, long sought by Pyongyang, broke the negotiating logjam. Twenty hours later, following an all- night session, the two sides announced agreement on a nonaggression accord that in effect...
Rebutting a series of inane claims point by point is usually fruitless, but a few doozies scream out for attention. After SAS "defines" Zionism, its flier declares that an "objective of Zionism" is that "Non-Jews needed to be removed from [the site of the Jewish State] in order to make room for the transplanted Jews and thus make possible the establishment of the Jewish State...