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...most notable name on Welch's list of "Inadequate" programs is giant Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Others on the blacklist are Baylor, Case Western Reserve, and Rice universities; New Orleans Baptist Seminary; the fundamentalist Dallas and Grace seminaries; the Catholic Aquinas Institute; and the Jewish Dropsie College. These days, it seems, even mediocrity is ecumenical...
...Last Picture Show seems modest to the point of extinction. Its actors are unknowns, its scene a Southwestern tank town, and its subject boredom. To make matters even less promising, it is not in color. Yet the choice of black and white, like the choice of cast and subject, is shrewdly apposite...
...fake antiquities. A recent series of laboratory tests gives them good reason to be furious. A team of British and European experts, using a new dating technique, has reported that 48 of 66 objects thought to be from Hacilar, a settlement that existed 7,000 years ago in southwestern Turkey, are forgeries. The results of their investigations, published in the current issue of Oxford's Archaeometry, also showed that 25 "Etruscan" wall paintings on terra cotta, for which Swiss, American and other collectors have been paying up to $24,000 apiece, are less than twelve years...
...Congo, where Israel's defense forces conduct military training and operations, Israelis are also the people of the gun. In Ethiopia, they have trained the country's entire security force, including commando units operating against Eritrean rebels hostile to Emperor Haile Selassie. Israeli agents in southwestern Ethiopia direct airdrops to southern Sudan's black rebels in their fight against the Arab-run Khartoum government...
...alas, the diamond is threatened with extinction. In southeastern and southwestern France this season, farmers unearthed barely 40 tons of truffles, compared with an annual crop of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the mid-19th century. This was no truffling matter. Accordingly, 450 farmers and scientists met at a two-day conference early this month in the Perigord region of France to discuss the tuber's troubled future. Mourned Charles Parra, president of the Federation of Truffle Producers in the Lot department in southwestern France: "If we don't find a remedy, the truffle will disappear...