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...site. Ahmad Basir, a grinning 19-year-old, holds aloft a clay urn the length of his forearm. It took Basir several hours of painstaking work with a scalpel to free the artifact from the earth where it had lain. Before the archaeologists came, he explains, looters would simply hack away at a site with axes and shovels until they found statues or gold jewelry. "We didn't care about pots," he says. "We would just throw them out, or break them to look for things inside." Marquis places the urn in a large ziplock bag and labels it with...
...married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...
...read I was a Republican hack. One day I read I was a Democratic hack. The only thing I did between those two nights was sleep." - During his investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity (TIME, October...
There is only one Game tradition that I will truly miss if it is absent this weekend: the MIT hack. The concept has always amused me—MIT nerds feeling left out by the ceremony of self-importance and athletic exclusivity upriver, and resolving to crash the party. The pranks have been elaborate and crazy interruptions to football games that have not, typically, been of the highest quality—and I’ve appreciated them since I was too young to stay awake through all four quarters of play...
...Such doubt is starting to hack off some leaders in Europe, who are getting impatient with market still fearful despite the $2 trillion plan announced by the 15 eurozone countries to buck up banks and credit systems. "We should stop looking at stock market activity the way a mouse watches a cat, and start thinking in the medium-term," the Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Paul Juncker told German radio Deutschlandfunk. Belying his own maxim, however, Juncker suggested additional efforts European governments may be planning to make should "impress the financial markets...