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...high order of scientific sleuthing. In 1978 one of Webb's students, Diderot Gicca, came up with a jawbone that totally baffled the team. Careful study showed it to be part of a hitherto unknown giant ancestor of the raccoon. Students also found a mastodon, an ancestral kin of the elephant, with two pairs of tusks, the lower ones resembling shovels. For a time, they were also puzzled by what seemed an unusually large (nearly 3 ft.) metacarpal bone. It belonged to a creature called Aepycamelus major, the giraffe camel. No less surprising were the remains of a large...
...Mothers of Plaza de Mayo" (or "Mad Mothers," as they are called by some cynical Argentines) are engaged in a mute contest of wills. Their aim: to discover the whereabouts of their kin, among the 6,000 to 24,000 Argentines who disappeared during the fierce war against terrorism waged by the military after it took power from the country's hapless Perónist government in March...
...Thursday the Nimitz steamed into Norfolk, its home port. At the pier the crew was met by a throng of kin and well-wishers. By Saturday the carrier, checked and scrubbed, was back on regular duty; its Caribbean training cruise had been delayed just three days...
...chairman of the Harvard War Memorial Fund Committee, wrote a letter to the editors of the Crimson, in which he disclosed that his committee had studied the question for five years before arriving at the church proposal. The committee had then sent letters to the next-of-kin of the Harvard dead, explaining the committee's proposal for a memorial church and asking for contributions. Burr wrote...
Doig closely repeats Swan's travels, shares his observations, and wonders about the mind behind all those words, always patiently braiding their century-separated lives together until they become one. The book itself is another diary, a log that grows as Doig's embrace of his adopted kin from another century grows closer. Doig's thoughts, Swan's life, and the natural surroundings are organically fused into a new whole. This observation of the Hoh rainforest takes on deeper meanings as we read the book...