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...from trash middens in the house indicate that the occupants dined mostly on wild caribou and seals, which were plentiful along the coast. (The domesticated animals were apparently raised for their wool and milk, not meat.) Scientists recovered more than 3,000 artifacts in the ruins, including a wooden loom, children's toys and combs. Along with hair, body lice and animal parasites, these items will be invaluable in determining what each room was used for. Researchers also found bones and other remnants from meals, and even a mummified goat. That means, says Berglund, "we'll even be able...
Further excavations in the mid-1970s under the auspices of Parks Canada, the site's custodian, made it plain that this was most likely the place where Leif set up camp. Among the artifacts turned up: loom weights, another spindle whorl, a bone needle, jasper fire starters, pollen, seeds, butternuts and, most important, about 2,000 scraps of worked wood that were subsequently radiocarbon dated to between 980 and 1020--just when Leif visited Vinland...
...handful of small niche designers, most of which barely existed five years ago and all claiming fans among the female cast members of Friends. These companies are turning impressive profits despite the existing competition of such stalwart manufacturers as the Gap, Old Navy and Fruit of the Loom. Three Dots, for example, which was launched in 1995 and boasts a "cotton as soft as cashmere," is projecting sales this year of $24 million, up from $16 million in 1999. Its success is echoed by brands such as Juicy Couture, Michael Stars, James Perse and Jet, all based in and around...
...Curran and her colleagues. Since a host of creatures ranging from the orangutan to the boar are dependent on the dipterocarps, the trees' disappearance may ultimately doom Indonesia's rain-forest ecosystem. PAGE scientist Nigel Sizer of the World Resources Institute notes that similar problems associated with fragmentation loom over all but the largest remaining forests on Earth...
...Washington before handing over the boy," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "But that quickly fell through when the foundation realized that it would suffer an even worse p.r. disaster in its own constituency if it was seen to be handing the boy over." As confrontation appeared to loom, with thousands massed outside the Miami home of Lazaro Gonzalez in the hope of preventing the government from enforcing its order, all sides were given a reprieve by the latest court order. Still, unless the appeals court reverses the trend of judicial decision in the case thus far, that reprieve...