Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOOK OF SAND...
...Book of Sand, those perplexities can be shadowed by pessimism. "Now things are going badly," says Borges in a conversation with his younger self. "Russia is taking over the world; America, hampered by the superstition of democracy, can't make up its mind to become an empire." In Utopia of a Tired Man, an in habitant of the future lives on a featureless plain, eats cornflakes and tells a visitor from another century, "We have neither dates nor history . . . rereading, not reading, is what counts. Printing - which is now abolished, since it tended to multiply unnecessary texts...
Suddenly the leader stops, stoops and snatches a small brownish fossilized bone fragment out of the sand. "Nimeipata, " he says in Swahili to the man beside him. "I've got it." Then, "Meave!" he calls to the wom an, who runs to join him. Together they examine the bone for a moment, replace it on the exact spot where it was found, mark it with a stake, and resume their search...
...several kilometers deep, walls of strata lie exposed, many-layered sandwiches of volcanic ash and ancient sediments containing the remains of complete prehistoric environments. Organizing a team of fossil hunters, Leakey established a base camp at Koobi Fora, a mound at the inboard end of a long, crocodile-infested sand spit that curves out into the lake. Then he began following his nose?with remarkable success. Turkana has yielded the richest accumulation of remnants of man and his predecessors ever found in one area...
...hijackers' most shocking act of savagery had already taken place in Aden. Because the Aden authorities had blocked the airport runway with fire trucks, Captain Schumann landed on an adjacent stretch of sand. After considerable argument, he convinced the terrorists that he should leave the plane to examine the nosewheel, which had been slightly damaged during the landing. When he climbed back aboard, Mahmud confronted him in a towering rage. "Are you guilty or not guilty?" he yelled, forcing the pilot at gunpoint to kneel at the head of the cabin aisle. Then Mahmud placed a pistol in Schumann...