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Only in the desert and within the walls of their plateau, property of the tribe for centuries, do the Havasupai feel comfortable. Yet the world beyond Highway 66 is now beginning to shatter that security. The Grand Canyon Dam is rising up river, meaning water and power for California. The...
Up to Thailand's Chiangmai province rushed the royal elephant expert. It's true! he reported back to Bangkok. After studying the pale toenails, the pink about the eyes and the white about the ears, it could be certified that for the second time in the 19-year...
The Dead Sea scrolls from Qumran have been widely heralded as the most spectacular archaeological find of the century. Almost as important for Biblical research, many scholars believe, are the little-known discoveries that have been made at Ras Shamra (meaning "hill of fennel") in northern Syria. There, since 1929...
...with Hebrew, scholars have been able to recover the original meaning of many Hebrew words. In Proverbs 31:3, for example, which the King James version translates as "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings," the word "ways" should be the more meaningful "power." Yale's Marvin Pope, a Ugaritic expert who translated Job for the Anchor Bible, cites another clarification. In Job 41:25, King James reads: "When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves." Pope argues that a correct translation would...
The ruling had a special meaning for Attorney Hutt, who appeared as amicus curiae in support of North Carolina's Driver. Though he had started the whole thing, Hutt was disappointed when the conviction of his own client was upheld last month by the District of Columbia Circuit Court...