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According to the Foundation, over 900 journalists have received the fellowships, which are the oldest of their kind for mid-career journalists...
...that are thrust upon us, and we can't operate as if the social realities are the same as they were in 1970," says Joe Hicks, executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Los Angeles. "The world has changed." The National Urban League, one of America's oldest civil rights organizations, has always focused on education and job training. This spring, using a two-year, $1 million grant from Atlantic Richfield, the League's Los Angeles branch will open a business development and training center to teach black would-be entrepreneurs the fine points of starting and managing...
Harvard is not a favorite in the tournament--the Crimson is not seeded--but it plans to make the most of the opportunity to participate in the oldest of all college championships (the first collegiate tennis championship...
...with knife marks) and charred fragments of basketry that are estimated to be between 12,000 and 15,000 years old. There is also an assortment of non-Clovis blades and points. Says Mercyhurst's Adovasio, who has studied Meadowcroft for nearly 20 years: "It may well be the oldest archaeological site in North America...
...very first true dinosaur looked like, but a young paleontologist named Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago has come closer than anyone else to finding out. In 1991, working with Argentine scientists in Ischigualasto Provincial Park at the edge of the Andes, he unearthed one of the oldest dinosaur fossils ever found. The animal, now known as Eoraptor, was a carnivore that dates from 230 million years ago. Like the much later Tyrannosaurus, the Eoraptor belonged to the saurischian, or lizard-hipped, category of dinosaurs. (The name refers to the arrangement of its pelvic bones; the other category...