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...culture. It's important for you to take part in that world and to accept its ways." Plan to take good care of the spaces you will occupy--the bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen. Both experts advise that you offer your help with the activities around you. Can you shovel the snow? Help with the cooking? Buy some groceries? Walk the dog? At least make a sincere offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be My Guest | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Cotton Mather is pictured digging up Burrows’s corpse. His animatronic shovel moves jerkily. Laura asks us to join her by the corpse, and to “make room” so that everyone can have a chance to see. She tells us of how Mather boiled Burrows’ skull and found that it was of an abnormal size, leading him to claim Burrows was a witch. “But, of course, when you boil someone’s skeleton, their bones expand,” Laura tells us chirpily...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Witching Sell | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

Five villagers agreed to do the job. Using a tangan, a crude shovel with a specially curved blade and an extra-long handle, they probed deep into the earth around the mound, extracting core samples and examining the dirt for indicators such as traces of charcoal, which the ancients packed around tombs to ward off humidity. Locating a likely spot, the villagers lighted the fuse on a 110-lb. lump of homemade dynamite and blew a hole in the middle of a wheat field. Having blasted their way to a spot near the top of the tomb, they donned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Looted Treasures: Stealing Beauty | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

TANGAN This special shovel, which has a curved blade and steel screw-on handle extensions, can extract soil samples from 115 ft. below the earth's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Looted Treasures: Inside a Tomb Raid | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...touchdown catch in the second quarter that extended Princeton’s lead to 14-6 should have just been a shovel pass for a three-yard gain. Instead, Veach slipped through a tackle and darted past two would-be pursuers for his second score...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Veach Slips Past Crimson Defensive Strategy | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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