Word: queens
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GOOD THINGS ALSO COME IN BIG packages. A timely example is the venerable art book, a Christmas delight for the MTVer as well as those who still think a VCR is some sort of honor bestowed by Queen Elizabeth. Bless the old darlings and the authors, photographers and publishers who stubbornly ignore the electronic onslaught to labor with inspiration and care to bring us the treasures of the world's museums, the pleasures of distant lands and the handiwork of dreamers. Here are some of this season's finest...
...instance, is currently studying the fossil of a puzzling conical creature that appears to be an early sponge. M.I.T.'s Beverly Saylor is sorting through sandstones that contain a menagerie of small, shelly things, some shaped like wine goblets, others like miniature curtain rods. And Guy Narbonne of Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, is trying to make sense of Dickinsonia-like creatures found just beneath the layer of rock where the Cambrian officially begins...
...behavior of light forced physicists to conclude that Newton's laws were incomplete, so the Cambrian explosion has caused experts to wonder if the twin Darwinian imperatives of genetic variation and natural selection provide an adequate framework for understanding evolution. "What Darwin described in the Origin of Species," observes Queen's University paleontologist Narbonne, "was the steady background kind of evolution. But there also seems to be a non-Darwinian kind of evolution that functions over extremely short time periods - and that's where all the action...
...answer--to "reassure all those people that have loved me and supported me ... that I'd never let them down. This is a priority, along with my children"--may contain some truth. Diana, who admits she probably won't be Queen, may be maneuvering to promote young Prince William and protect her access to him. Since no one likes to see a devoted parent denied her children, there's little the palace can do except tolerate her as mother to the future King. As for her desire to be "queen of people's hearts," it looks as if she already...
...than 4,000-year-old, long-lost city of Urkesh. Buried beneath a town in northeastern Syria, Urkesh was reputed to have been a thriving religious center for the ancient Hurrians, a civilization cited briefly in the Bible. Unearthed were clay tablets, metal tools, drawings and seals of the Queen...