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Last week President Johnson decreed an end to the exile of the Bikinians, now a scattered community of 500. After 23 atomic and hydrogen bomb tests, the last in 1958, the poisons of nuclear radiation have dissipated from the sand and sea around their native atoll, and the Bikinians can...
Among Africa's first known tribal groups were the artistically talented Bushmen, who scratched out their lively rock drawings of hunters and wild animals in the Stone Age. Some 7,000 years ago, the Hamites came across the Suez, bringing a rudimentary knowledge of agriculture, and soon they intermarried with...
At solar observatories scattered throughout the U.S., astronomers reached for their telephones one day last June and called the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Each observer had spotted the beginnings of a solar flare, an extremely hot outburst of high-energy particles on the surface of the sun...
Logical Extremes. Born of a solid landowner family in 1883, Webern was trained as a musicologist at the University of Vienna. In 1904, while still a student, he met Arnold Schoenberg and became his lifelong friend and disciple in the cause of overthrowing tonal music. In many areas Webern took...
India estimates the strength of the underground rebel army at from 6,000 to 8,000, scattered through the hills and thick forests of Nagaland. Nominal leader of the Naga rebellion is a school teacher named A. Z. Phizo, who organized an independence movement back in 1947 and left for...