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...event's organizer Nur O. Yalman, professor of social anthropology and Middle Eastern studies, said the chair represents the culmination of years of effort...
...Their goal is to get far enough inside to explore the staircases and lower level. Weeks estimates that it will take at least five years to study and map the entire tomb, protect the decorations, install climate controls and electricity and shore up the precarious sections. Says Abdel Halim Nur el Din, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities: "We're in no hurry to open this tomb to the public. We already have 10 or 12 that they can visit." It is more important to preserve the tombs that have already been excavated, say the Egyptians, than...
...test, at Lop Nur in the northwestern Gobi Desert region of China, was a sign that Beijing too is irritated, specifically with what hard-liners in the regime consider blackmail, interference and pressure from the West. Amid intensified maneuvering to succeed ailing senior leader Deng Xiaoping, the conservatives have gained influence in the top echelons of government. Last May, President Jiang Zemin told the Politburo, in reference to U.S. human- rights pressures, that "we will not yield to hegemonism and power politics. For the motherland's sovereignty, independence and dignity, we are ready to pay a price." At the same...
...fault lines along the San Andreas, giving the region the look of a smashed windshield. Over the millenniums, the Mojave shear zone to the east may offer a path of less resistance to the giant plates and replace the San Andreas as a new plate boundary, suggests geophysicist Amos Nur of Stanford...
...Would Nur Yalman, professor of social anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, please explain his use of the word "pansy" in the April 24 Crimson news article, "Arab Scholar Ajami Negotiating Tenure"? The professor was quoted as saying, "He is a man of strong opinions. He is not a pansy on criticizing the Arabs...