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Some 22,000 years ago, in southwestern France, a band of Stone Age hunters camped the year round beneath a rocky overhang while hunting the locally migrating herds of reindeer on which their lives depended. They cooked the reindeer meat over hearths scooped from the ground; made clothes and leanto shelters from the skins; and from the bones and antlers cut out spear points, awls, and beads...
...hunters had no stone vessels or clay pots to cook in. Yet one of them could carve with great delicacy, a Venus-like figure out of rock...
...there from year to year. During the next two thousand years it grew much colder and damper--a sub-artic world like the present-day tundras of northern Europe. In this severer climate, new species of plants and animals thrived, while others which previously had flourished declined. And the Stone Age hunters, no longer able to stand the winter, went south each fall with the migrating herds of reindeer, to return again in the spring to their favorite camping spot beneath the rocky shelter...
Pugnacious Poem. The tie with Yemen had been bizarre from the first. Nasser had hoped to reform the Stone Age kingdom and make it part of a Pan-Arab nation; Yemen's wily old Imam simply hoped to pry as much cash as possible out of Nasser without changing his country (where slavery, public flogging and eye-for-an-eye justice are still practiced). The Imam dodged all meetings with Nasser, barred the twelve-member U.A.R. committee from convening in Yemen, and tore up all of its recommendations for reform. He was unimpressed when, in his new drive...
...Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone...