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...Really Discovered America?The conventional answer to that question dates to the early 1930s, when stone projectile points that were nearly identical began to turn up at sites across the American Southwest. They suggested a single cultural tradition that was christened Clovis, after an 11,000-year-old-plus site near Clovis, N.M. And because no older sites were known to exist in the Americas, scientists assumed that the Clovis people were the first to arrive. They came, according to the theory, no more than 12,000 years B.P. (before the present), walking across the dry land that connected modern...
...book has come under criticism this week for being taken out of context or being factually incorrect. For example, Larry Estrada, associate professor of ethnic studies at Western Washington University, is profiled as supporting the creation of an independent Hispanic state in America’s Southwest to be called “Atzlan.” In a statement, Estrada said, “I think this attack is libelous. They never contacted me or talked to me about my viewpoints. I’ve never advocated secession.”But Horowitz said that he has students?...
However, this same flexibility does not apply to school districts that are a part of the Rural Low Income Schools program, which include poorer rural regions predominantly made up of minorities in the Southeast and Southwest, the study said...
...Tuxpeos living full-time in the area, and scores more show up during the work-filled summer months. Many of the new arrivals cross by foot near Douglas, Ariz., and then get rides to big cities where they catch vans, buses or even airplanes to New York. (Southwest Airlines is a popular choice for its fares, as low as $99 one-way.) The lucky ones with tourist visas can fly directly from Mexico City to New York City's J.F.K. Airport. But whether they travel by land or by air, relatively few get caught or even delayed. Their safety...
...Between now and 2015, though, the project scientists won't exactly be sitting on their hands. Says Alan Stern, Principal Investigator for the New Horizons mission and head of space sciences at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., "People ask me if I'll go into a depression now. But I have a job, and I'm working on lots of projects. Anyway, in a year it will be at Jupiter, and at that point we'll have a whole lot of data to process...