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...only explorer haunted by the tombs of Bahariya. The sleepy backwater 230 miles southwest of Cairo was largely overlooked by archaeologists before 1996. That's when a donkey belonging to an antiquities guard fell into a hole that led directly to an undiscovered tomb filled with gold-covered mummies. Since then, Hawass and his team have been digging extensively in Bahariya, turning up hundreds of mummies and treasures beyond imagination. Some of their findings appear in Hawass's Valley of the Golden Mummies (Abrams; $49.50; 224 pages), a richly illustrated text due in bookstores this month. Others, unearthed after...
...besides Greg Louganis to win back-to-back titles off the springboard. American volleyballers Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana kicked sand in Brazil's face at Bondi Beach. The softball and baseball tournaments were more competitive than ever. The U.S. batswomen lost thrice before storming back to win the gold, while the batsmen did the unprecedented, beating Cuba 4-0 for the title. Finally, there was that track meet, with the performance that will long live as Sydney's gift to sport, and to the world...
...speed, crashing out with four fouls in six jumps. Germany's Heike Drechsler took honors, Jones a consolation bronze. On Saturday, skittish baton passes yielded another bronze in the 4 x 100-m relay, but Jones' own sensational leg in the 4 x 400 brought her a third gold...
...Viana?s government, along with others, is exploring every opportunity to find profit in standing forest. In fact, with the world increasingly alarmed about global warming, state governments in the Amazon see a potential gold mine in the use of virgin forest as a storehouse for atmospheric carbon. The Amazon Basin releases between 100 million and 300 million tons of carbon a year into the atmosphere through deforestation; the amount doubles in years when fires devastate the forest. The U.N.-sponsored greenhouse-gas agreement, worked out in Kyoto in 1998 to combat the threat of climate change (not yet ratified...
...clear from the last two weeks that Marion Jones is one of the most dominant and charming female athletes ever. Not only does she win the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints by a margin larger than any other female in nearly 40 years, she also wins the gold in the 4x400m relay. She wins bronze in the long jump and 4x100m relay and would have had a fourth gold if two of her relay teammates had not been injured. In a word: dominant...