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...while scientists have unearthed a few examples of bovine idols, they have never found a calf that predates the Exodus, which scholars think took place between 1500 and 1200 B.C. Last week, though, a team of Harvard archaeologists announced they had done just that. During excavations in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, Rachel Stark, 20, a student volunteer, accidentally uncovered a statue of a calf inside a pottery container. Says Stark: "I didn't realize what I had found...
...MEET ELEANOR while I walk down the main street of Port Matilda, which is landlocked and not a port at all. She is restaining an ancient rocking chair on her porch. Eighty-two years old, she has lived in that town all her life. She is not unusual. Most people I meet are natives. When I ask one man if he has lived there all his life, he tells me, "Naw, I was born up the road two miles and lived there till...
While busy Americans are eating almost as many meals out as ever, they are hunting harder for bargains. Surveying restaurant-dining patterns across the country between December and February, the NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y., market research firm, reported that ethnic and quick-service outlets fared best. Some top eateries have shaved prices 10% to 20% to keep their kitchens busy. Many popular night spots that would have shunned families two or three years ago have added children's plates and have hung out the welcome sign. At home, catered dinners have largely been replaced by casual cookouts...
...feared and reviled as the former Minister of the Interior and Defense under the exiled dictator Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and the onetime head of the dreaded Tontons Macoutes, but when Roger Lafontant arrived in Port-au-Prince from exile in Santo Domingo last week, he was given a VIP reception despite orders from the government not to admit him. Lafontant's unwelcome return came only a few days after the arrival of another exiled Duvalier associate, Major General Williams Regala...
...company insists that growers are legally bound to sell to it until 1992. As a result, Fyffes' port shipments have been blocked by armed guards. Campesinos armed only with farm implements have confronted them, but no injuries have been reported so far. Last month a train packed with Fyffes bananas was derailed in northern Honduras when it hit what police said was a deliberate obstruction. The contractual dispute is working its way through the Honduran courts...