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...Searchlight Pictures Directed by Kevin Macdonald 4.5 stars Forget “helping people” and “making a difference”—these are Nicholas Garrigan’s (James McAvoy, “The Chronicles of Narnia”) vague, romanticized hopes when, fresh out of medical school, he sets off for Uganda in “The Last King of Scotland.” But Garrigan painfully learns that idealism is not so simple, not to mention potentially dangerous, in this grittily realistic thriller based on the actual political climate of 1970s...
Edward T. McAvoy, production designer of the 1999 film Office Space, was pondering ways to accessorize that film's geeky character Milton and latched onto a stapler. He wondered, What could I do as a designer to make this stapler special so as to justify Milton's need to possess it and the bosses' need to covet it? He decided to make it fire-engine red. "I called Swingline and said, 'Do you make a red stapler?' and they said no," McAvoy recalls. "And I said, 'Well, do you mind if I use your logo on the side...
...latest evidence against the old story was unveiled last week in Philadelphia during the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Joseph McAvoy of the Nottoway River Survey and his colleagues disclosed that an ancient campsite known as Cactus Hill, 45 miles south of Richmond, Va., has been conclusively dated at around 18,000 years old. That predates the accepted timing for the opening of that crucial ice-free corridor and bolsters the theory that the earliest Americans came by sea, possibly even from across the Atlantic rather than from Asia. "If the dates hold up, and I think...
...corroboration. Taking its name from the prickly pears that grow at the site, it was discovered in 1988 by a sharp-eyed farmer named Harold Conover, who alerted researchers to some curious stone tools he had spotted in road sand dug up from an old pit nearby. In 1989, McAvoy's team began excavations, now sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the state of Virginia. So far, the team has unearthed a variety of Paleo-Indian stone tools shaped for hunting, butchering and processing game; charred bones of mud turtles, white-tailed deer and other mammals; and bits...
Radiocarbon dating and other techniques indicate the campsite was occupied as long as 5,000 years before the Clovis culture appeared. Calling the results "unequivocal," McAvoy says they should "terminate the debate over whether Clovis was first or not." The Meadowcroft rock shelter's chief investigator, archaeologist James Adovasio of Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., agrees. "This is another indication that people were running around North America earlier than 13,000 years ago," he says...