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...Love & Special Sauce. The two surfed and jammed together, and Dutton liked Johnson's song Rodeo Clowns so much that he asked Johnson to record it with him for the 1999 album Philadelphonic. When Rodeo Clowns became the album's only hit, Johnson found himself on the radar of several major record labels. "I had a pretty good gig, the surf-film gig," he says. "I had a lot of fun, and I could pay my bills, which is all I was really concerned with. So when [record] people would ask me if I was willing to give...
...gives so quietly, his donations flew under the media radar for decades. But that changed a few years ago when he gave $3 million to fund research leading to an affordable treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Third World countries. Researchers wanted White to get his due, so they thanked him in a footnote in a Harvard Medical School report. His cover was blown. "People who want their names on buildings are not the kind of people who buy millions of dollars of medicine for the poor," observes Dr. Paul Farmer, whose groundbreaking work led to the TB treatment...
...formally excavated the area. The abundance of animal bones in the debris that was used as fill within the enclosure wall, however, as well as a partial inscription on the wall detailing the regulation of animals brought to the sanctuary, suggests that sacrifices were common. A radar sounding within the oval confirmed that it too is littered with architectural debris, and a preliminary dig turned up the remains of a collapsed structure with huge inscriptions. "The letters are half a meter high, so they could be read from the ground like a billboard," says Glanzman. "We also expect to find...
...archaeologists' radar has already located the remains of other structures, part of a vast temple complex covering more than 6 hectares. In addition to a thicket of buildings on either side of the hall, the radar has spotted a water well and what appears to be a grand causeway linking Mahram Bilqis with the ancient citadel of Marib, which rises above the desert about five km to the north. A separate team from the German Archaeological Institute, meanwhile, has uncovered dozens of multistory mausoleums in a cemetery area southwest of the oval enclosure. "We have excavated less than...
...enclosed by a thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 12m long. The afsm team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than 9m beneath the sand, and it is exploring the site using ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech tools...