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...port of Sharm el Sheikh, the high-spirited Americans, dressed for the most part in blue jeans and tennis shoes, spent a day at Cairo's luxurious Hyatt El Salam Hotel. Many soldiers stopped in the Hyatt's Bazaar Shop to buy such Christmas gifts as papyrus, Arabic phrase books and necklaces adorned with Sphinx pendants. "They were laughing and dancing a little to the belly-dance music playing in the shop," recalled Proprietor Nagui Makari. The Americans, guarded by Egyptian uniformed police and plainclothesmen, enjoyed an early-afternoon meal in the grand ballroom, dining on tomato soup, roast chicken...
...relegated to the occult realm of medicine men, sorcerers and shamans. Ancient Egyptians believed that chronic pain was caused by spirits, gods and the dead, but by the 16th century B.C. they had discovered a corporeal way to treat it. Opium is recommended as an analgesic in the Ebers Papyrus, an early reference work listing nearly a thousand prescriptions used in the times of the Pharaoh Amenhotep. Egyptians and some Eastern cultures believed that the physical locus of pain was the heart. This...
...Sudd, Arabic for barrier, is aptly named. Its central 7,000 sq. mi. are permanently clogged with reeds and papyrus and infested with 63 species of mosquito. From May to October, the White Nile floods and temporarily extends the swamp another 4,300 sq. mi. Says Daniel Yong, a member of the area's nomadic Dinka tribe and a Jonglei Canal project official: "In the rainy season there is water everywhere, but in the dry season you can die of thirst." The Sudd proved an obstacle to 19th century explorers, but today it is more of a hindrance...
...silent. But it looks bad. Emanations of a man's guilt, as Freud once put it, "ooze from all his pores." Even the hard, grim stonewall of the Nixon White House eventually crumbled. Richard Nixon, in fact, is a fascinating case study in the psychology of confession. The "Papyrus of Nu" from the 18th dynasty of Egypt records what scholars have come to call the negative confessions. Therein the Egyptian advises the gods of all the crimes he has not committed during his life ("I have not polluted myself... I have not carried away milk from the mouths...
...that only an elite priesthood will be privy to its secrets. Other than the irrepressible Sagan, how many scientists would buzz a simulated Martian volcano, as he does in one Cosmos sequence; or rummage through a re-creation of the famed library of Alexandria, pretending to read long-lost papyrus scrolls; or attempt to explain the paradoxes of special relativity while bicycling through the hills of Tuscany, where the young Einstein once wandered? Sagan also issues some open challenges. To creationists, who argue for a biblical interpretation of life's beginnings, he states that evolution is not a theory...