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...three days the scientists drilled, an inch at a time. Last Monday morning, 62 in. into the porous limestone, the carbide-tipped drill broke through. Pieter Tans, a research scientist from the University of Colorado in Boulder, filled six canisters with 159 quarts of air drawn from the chamber. He also took a sniff. Said Tans: "I did not smell history. I didn't smell anything, except maybe staleness...
Since there are no immediate plans to excavate the ship, the scientists resealed the entrance hole after meticulously filming every inch of the chamber for later study and mapping. Using a special zoom lens, they filmed everything from the markings on the walls to the lengths of the boat's cedar planks. From the film, archaeologists hope to determine the size of the ship -- and perhaps even discover clues to its purpose. Some scholars believe the vessels were intended to carry the spirits of the dead on their eternal journey around the earth with the sun-god Ra. They disagree...
...Burkina Faso, which in the local Mossi and Dioula languages means "Land of Upright Men." The old moniker was no longer appropriate, said Sankara, because it was chosen not by Africans but by white French colonists. Last week Sankara, 37, a popular and charismatic leader who was every inch an upright man, was himself replaced. He was ousted and killed in a bloody rebellion led by his second-in-command, Captain Blaise Compaore...
Doctors removed the first lady's left breast and several lymph nodes from under her arm on Saturday in a 50-minute operation following a needle biopsy that revealed a quarter-inch malignant tumor. The first indication of the lesion came Oct. 5 during Mrs. Reagan's annual mammography...
...leaderships of the Hart campaigns in New Hampshire, Illinois, Florida and Washington State have come over to the Gore camp virtually en masse. In the seven debates to date, Gore's combination of self- assurance and command of substance has helped him overcome the misgivings about his age and inch upward in the polls. He is so pleased with his performance that he has added a new line to his stump speech: if elected, he vows to challenge Gorbachev to debate ideology and foreign policy...