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...southern Negev Desert. First spotted by the late American biblical scholar and archaeologist Nelson Glueck, the heaps seemed to be remnants of an ancient copper-smelting operation of pre-Roman origin. Now, after excavating at the site with a team of West German mining experts, Israeli Archaeologist Beno Rothenberg reports that the slag is only the tip of an archaeological treasure. A short distance away, he says, is the oldest underground mining system ever found...
...traditional view is that the first really large-scale attempts at underground mining, in which extensive shafts and subterranean galleries were used, were not made until the time of the Romans, who mined everything from Spanish silver to British iron and Near Eastern copper. Rothenberg's discovery just about destroys that theory. From the stone hammers, bronze chisels and a cooking pot found in the labyrinthian tunnels of the Negev mine, he concludes that the mine dates back to 1400 B.C. -near the end of the Bronze Age and more than a millennium before Rome's large-scale...
...obstetrics patients, who rarely need blood transfusions as a result of childbirth. Doctors at Chicago's University of Illinois Hospital tried a different tack. Rejecting the idea of bloodmobiles ("They're like Vikings pillaging rural neighborhoods and carting the blood back to the city"), Dr. H.J. Rothenberg II obtained a list of the university's 23,000 students, then used a computer system to send them birthday greetings that asked for a blood donation as part of their celebration of life. Other Chicago area hospitals stress "blood assurance," a guarantee that donors will get blood free...
...founder of Fortune, David Rothenberg, said that community-based correctional facilities would be the answer to the present system. "Halfway Houses are only jails with carpeting in the middle of a city," he said. "Community-based facilities would allow the convict to work out his problems within the society...
...Leary stressed the importance of reassuring inmates of "their dignity and humanity, because you learn after being in for a while that the only way to survive is to hate." Rothenberg added that outside contact is essential for a feeling of support...