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Have I unfairly characterized your beloved field? Maybe. But the fact remains that in all of these fields, the standard methods of data collection and the major theoretical superstructure are all well established, and all that remains is to flesh out the skeleton. Not much earth-shattering, pedestal-smashing paradigm shifts are likely in such well-buttressed fields...
...side of a dune one day's camel ride from Timia, a camel skeleton bakes in the searing sun. A few patches of heat-hardened skin cling to the chalky, white bone. The sun bleached vertebrae of the neck lie in a graceful curve where the animal fell; a couple of ribs have been pulled away by a scavenger. "I feel my life has been hard and I know Adam's will be hard too," says Adam's uncle Saghdou. His eyes hang low in his weathered face, dragged down by time. "The desert is our enemy. It's like...
DIED. E.T. HALL, 77, archaeologist and leading archaeometrist who famously uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; in Oxford, England. Using X-ray fluorescence, Hall showed that the Piltdown Man's skeleton--once thought to be evolution's "missing link"--had been stained to look fossilized and that the teeth of an orangutan had been filed to appear more human...
...India's response is hardly atypical. Most governments have a skeleton or three in their own closets, and the standard reaction is to strenuously deflect attention onto their neighbor's closet in a game of moral musical chairs. (A comprehensive discussion on slavery, for example, may require mention of the fact that most of the slaves captured on Africa's east coast went not to the New World, but to Arab countries, but the art of the deal here is to throw your weight behind a popular cause in exchange for having your own sins passed over...
...Meanwhile, the story that was keeping New York's own August skeleton crew awake - the economy - was actually suppressing news overall. When the Media Conglomerate needs to meet Wall Street's targets, its news divisions get the same flurry of pink slips and parachutes as everybody else. Especially when they're losing money. "In the face of the advertising slowdown, so many media outlets are cutting costs with layoffs and lower page counts," says Wolff, "that in a real way, we can't afford news this summer." Between the temporary vacations, the permanent ones and the cost-cutting, the resources...