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...Tunica find is the largest collection of 18th-century Indian relics ever discovered. The artifacts include musket parts, iron tools, jewelry, French and tribal pottery, and over 200,000 European trade beads--more than all the beads ever found in the southeastern United States put together...
Sharp is a professor of political science and sociology at Southeastern Massachusetts University and an associate of the CFIA, where he has done most of his work since...
...near San José, the capital of Costa Rica. Spokesmen for both the Costa Rican government and Pastora's rebels denied that the planes had come from Costa Rica. A.R.D.E. sources claimed that the flights had originated at a dirt airstrip that the rebels had recently captured in southeastern Nicaragua. Nicaraguan leaders placed the blame for the attack not on A.R.D.E. or Costa Rica but on the U.S., calling the raid "a cowardly and criminal act." Said D'Escoto: "The only true responsibility is President Reagan's and his Administration's, which has conceived, directed...
...asks his students to name the subjects and discuss their roles in events. East Hampton, N.Y., Social Studies Teacher Jim Barry has devised a current-events contest in which teams compete for points by answering questions from a given week's issue. Evelyn Robinson, a professor at Southeastern Louisiana University's education department, finds that TIME not only develops vocabulary and critical reading skills, but fills gaps in her students' education by exposing them to subject matter they would encounter nowhere else. Professor Arthur Beringause of Bronx Community College has had similar results: "My freshman and remedial...
...center of the maelstrom is Whoops, a once obscure but now infamous joint venture of 23 publicly owned utilities. With headquarters in the small city of Richland in southeastern Washington, the agency was set up in 1957 to build dams and power plants. By the early '70s Whoops officials, who put their faith in energy experts, thought that the Northwest was facing serious potential power shortages. Demand for electricity had been burgeoning 7% annually and was expected to continue growing at that pace. Hoping to provide an abundant source of cheap energy, the power system began building its first...