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Among the more interesting discoveries were pipe stems, ceramics with hand-painted designs, and glass bottles. The students who originally owned these objects didn't know it back then, but these will now be used by archaeologists to learn about life at this 17th century college. (Makes us think twice about throwing that empty Cape Cod chips bag on the ground.) These recovered artifacts have been donated to the Peabody Museum, where Fash serves as the director...
...focus of the class has really been on historical archaeology, because it tries to combine both written record and material culture," Balmori said. "What you have often are contradictions. Where the rules say you will be punished if you smoke or drink, you find pipes and glass bottles...
...rough past. Harris-Moore's abusive father walked out after choking him during an argument at a family barbecue. His mother raised him in a mobile home dragged into the woods on the island's South End, which, as local writer and stained-glass artist Jack Archibald says, has "basically one main road, a two-lane blacktop that loops around like a belt on a skinny fella...
...Nicaragua's first public ice-skating rink, built inside a climate-controlled plastic tent that defies the scorching 95 degree heat outside. Wearing loosely laced second-hand skates with dull blades and inadequate ankle support, the excited children - most of whom have never seen ice outside of a drinking glass - giggle, flop and crash their way across the Zamboni-starved ice. (Read a story about Nicaragua's vampire problem...
...course, he looks like he's enjoying this week as his playground of smart-suited corporate glass and steel glitters on the Las Vegas skyline. The mood this week in the city is upbeat as fireworks and a multitude of parties have marked the opening of Aria, CityCenter's central casino-hotel. (A retail mall, Crystals, opened early this month, along with a Mandarin Oriental hotel and a condo-hotel called Vdara. Three more towers are still in mid-construction...