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...city, in an effort to wrest control from rebels who seized it Thursday. An armed opposition group staged a jailbreak - in which at least 10 people died - as violent protests against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide continued. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... As the Crow Doesn't Fly Animal behaviorists at Oxford University have discovered that homing pigeons' navigational techniques are a lot like humans'. Using satellite tracking devices, the scientists found that, rather than relying on their inner solar compass, the birds prefer to follow roads, taking an easily grasped route, even if it takes longer. Unlike humans, however, the birds...
...Joseph Conrad and the set designers of Raiders of the Lost Ark ever curated a museum, the result might be something like Oxford's Pitt Rivers, tel: (44-1865) 270927. Founded in 1884 by Lieut. General Pitt Rivers-Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments-the Pitt Rivers Museum houses tens of thousands of anthropological artifacts in an atmosphere redolent with Victorian eccentricity. Wildly cluttered display cases and fading labels, handwritten in copperplate script, speak of the period's voraciously eclectic mania for collecting. In one spot there's a Tahitian mourner's costume, acquired during Captain Cook's second...
...heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture. Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges-or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs-will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...
...Joseph Conrad and the set designers of Raiders of the Lost Ark ever curated a museum, the result might be something like Oxford's Pitt Rivers, tel: (44-1865) 270927. Founded in 1884 by Lieut. General Pitt Rivers - Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments - the Pitt Rivers Museum houses tens of thousands of anthropological artifacts in an atmosphere redolent with Victorian eccentricity...
Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges - or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs - will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...