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...When the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon (fame due to the name of the Lord), she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones ?" - 1 Kings 10: 1-2or "Greatness," but these are only titles. "Sheba" is simply an alternate spelling of Saba, the kingdom in modern-day Yemen where she is said to have reigned for a score of years beginning about 950 B.C. And while Cleopatra, the other storied beauty of Middle Eastern royalty...
...fact, Westerners have been looking for the Queen at Mahram Bilqis since 1843, when Joseph Thomas Arnaud, a French apothecary, arrived in search of the spices she brought to Solomon. By then, the site had long since been abandoned. The temple itself had ceased to be used sometime in the 6th century A.D., and the expanding desert had covered much of the complex. Sheba searchers returned to the region sporadically, most recently in the 1950s, when American oilman and explorer Wendell Phillips led an expedition that was driven out by political upheavals in Yemen...
VICTIM In a new history of Scott's expedition, Dr. Susan Solomon tries to redeem his rep, blaming his misfortune on an unusually harsh Antarctic autumn...
...operation to remove half a child's brain sounds like something that only a mad--not to mention sadistic--scientist would dream up. And yet Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Md., is neither insane nor cruel. His reason for performing the surgery--known as a hemispherectomy--is quite compelling. For young patients with rare seizure disorders, it is often their best chance of living a more nearly normal life...
...First, though, an analysis of Solomon's test: It was really all about who cared the most. By that standard, the solution seems easy. Religious conservatives only seem to care about the destruction of these embryos, not about their creation. Tens of thousands of these embryos are created every year for in vitro fertilization and thousands of them never get used. The religious conservatives don't seem to care that these embryos are consigned to eternal limbo or even discarded; they only seem to care if the embryos are used for stem cell research. You don't see too many...