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...Hunt, set in war-torn Korea, is about a war lover, a man for whom war is not hell but home. How this leads to the corruption of an innocent Korean boy is only one among many strata of meanings explored in this low-budget film made with high intelligence and high...
Miss Irwin discovered the remains and tools in the Valsequillo Zone earth-strata, and on geological evidence alone, estimated the age at 30,000 years. Scientists will use radio-carbon dating to check her estimate...
...crumble to dust as soon as exposed to air." Second Deadly Silas. Howells' novels were written in a prose that both friends such as Twain and detractors such as H. L. Mencken admitted to be superb; and they were written about subjects that mattered-the hardening caste strata in U.S. society, the pain of divorce, the wrongs of a laissez-faire economy. Yet before his death in 1920, with the realism he had preached unshakably in vogue, he wrote to his friend Henry James, "I am comparatively a dead cult with my statues cut down and the grass growing...
Last week the AEC explained that recent bomb tests have been conducted in deep vertical shafts. The walls of the test chambers are of sedimentary strata full of small pores. The irresistible pressure of a bomb's expanding fireball compresses this material, forming a spherical cavity holds its shape for 15-25 minutes; then the cooling gases lose their pressure. With a horrid noise the roof falls and all the way to the surface. With a horrid noise the roof falls, and all the way to the surface the layers of shook-up material tumble down after...
...archaeologists at Les Eyzies are excavating with a technique more precise than any ever used at a prehistoric site. They are peeling back the thin occupation layers, one by one, and recording the type and exact location of every artifact within each strata. The archaeologists thus obtain a picture of the distribution of flint tools, animal bones, and other remains, in time and space. They can study how the form of a flint knife, for example, slowly changed during thousands of years. And they can determine, for each period of pre-history, where, within the camping site, such tasks...