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Radiocarbon experts, however, rebuff both sets of charges. Choosing an unbesmirched area was one of the most important decisions they could have made at the time. Says anthropologist R. Ervin Taylor, director of the radiocarbon-dating lab at the University of California at Riverside: "If they sampled in the wrong place, then they were idiots--and I know that's not the case." Geoscientist Paul Damon, a member of the University of Arizona team that tested one of the 1988 samples, hastens to say that the swatch was selected conscientiously and on the advice of textile experts. Contradicting Adler...
...major diplomatic rebuff, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a dinner with Cook after the foreign secretary met with Palestinian representatives in Arab East Jerusalem. Netanyahu?s move is a sign of the limits of E.U. leverage in the Mideast peace process: "The European Union has no influence whatsoever over Israel," says Beyer. "To say even that Cook's visit will achieve very little would be an unrealistically high expectation...
...rebuff to the IOC, the court ruled that the Olympic body had no business testing athletes for marijuana ? good news for a hemp-friendly snowboarding community that had gotten all fired up over Rebagliati?s disqualification. The Japanese police were less forgiving, however, interviewing the athlete and searching his room for traces of the illegal substance. Rebagliati claims he hasn?t used marijuana in 10 months, and that the traces in his bloodstream came from secondhand smoke...
...went into shock." Had any of the parties approached her, she says, she would have informed them, "Well, I'm not interested in selling my property." In part, the stance is just age-old miner's shrewdness: Don't sell your stake unless it's running out. But her rebuff also reflects a century of skirmishing between Western miners and the feds: "We Montanans feel pretty strongly about our love of the land," she says. "It is not American to be trying to wipe out selective private property...
...President's most vivid rebuff yet of Tupac Amaru's demand. And given the guerrillas' own intransigence, it illustrated just how long Peru's hostage crisis could drag on. Since the well-being of the hostages keeps Fujimori from using his iron fist to rescue them, he decided last week to rely on his own steely resolve, settling into a tense staring match with Tupac Amaru...