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...destroyers, it seems: they dug here for treasure and, in the process, brought human remains to the surface. To illustrate this, Nasir pokes around in an earthen bank with a stick, discarding bits of animal bones, and finally pulls out a human vertebra. The soldiers offer a more pleasant souvenir: fragments of pottery, smashed by Genghis Khan's men. "Take it, they're everywhere," one man says. "We just throw it away...
...pleasant story, any way you look at it: One minute, Thomas Junta and Michael Costin were watching their sons' hockey practice. The next, fists (and insults) were flying - a brawl that left Costin dead. The July, 2000 incident, which bloodied the floor at a Reading, Massachusetts hockey rink, was front page news for a few days, then mercifully faded from sight. But this week, as Junta's trial for manslaughter drew to a close, the hockey dads were back in the spotlight. Friday evening, after less than two days of deliberations, a jury found Junta guilty of involuntary manslaughter...
Three decades ago flying was considered the pleasant privilege of those who could afford it. Then, with the onset of deregulation, it devolved into an endurance contest. Flying may yet become a privilege again, but for an entirely different reason. Americans might be forced to trade some privacy to fly. "For aviation, it is imperative that we focus more thoroughly on individual people as potential security threats and not just on things like carry-ons and checked baggage," says Carol Hallett, head of the Air Transport Association, the industry's trade group...
...stronger economy. When the streets are clearer and curbs are easier to get to in a delivery van, New York's businesses will run better. When the sidewalks feel wider, the air is cleaner, and walking in the city is pleasant in any neighborhood, New York's real lifeblood - its shoppers - will spend more time looking in windows, stopping for coffee, picking up something on sale. Everybody wins...
...haven't looked at the shopping bots in a few years, you're in for a pleasant surprise. Instead of just finding the lowest prices, they now rate the merchants they search, so you will feel a little more confident about buying that $1,000 camcorder from a site like Love4Digital.com or BestDiscoCam.com Key details like shipping costs and whether a product is in stock are often displayed with your search results. And make sure you update your bookmarks: some of the most popular sites today--such as bizrate.com and pricegrabber.com--weren't even in the comparison-shopping business...