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Victims like her could eventually bring the number of Haiti's quake-related amputees to as many as 150,000 - meaning almost 2% of the nation's 9 million people could be in that condition by year's end. (To get a sense of scale: the years of the war...
Another mummy, known as KV35YL, was identified as both the sister of Akhenaten and the mother of Tutankhamen, meaning that Tut was the product of a brother-sister coupling. "She cannot be Nefertiti," says Hawass, citing another popular speculation that Nefertiti, Akhenaten's chief consort, was Tut's mother, "but...
Obama once appeared exceedingly well qualified to change the tone in Washington. He came armed with his résumé of bipartisan efforts in the Illinois state senate and in Congress, his balanced, unflappable temperament and his instinctual and biographical remove from the acidic Washington ethos. And Obama seemed...
There are few children more vulnerable than the youth of Haiti. So when the western hemisphere's poorest country was ravaged by the Jan. 12 earthquake, people in the developed world turned their Brad-and-Angelina eyes to the tens of thousands left orphaned in the rubble. Well-meaning interest...
Any outsider eating breakfast in Currier might soon be struck by something else besides the green "pistachio" muffins—namely, a group of intrepid Quadlings wearing bathrobes down to the dining hall in the a.m. We hear that this same group of Currierites is currently in the process of...