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Baghain is particularly struck by the skull of a bear perched on a stone near a wall adorned by an ursine image. "What is significant," says the official, "is that some 17,000 to 20,000 years ago, a human being decided to put it in that particular place for a particular reason. I think it fair to assume that the bear did not self-decapitate on that spot to intrigue us." Was this an altar for some Paleolithic ceremony...
...textbook on the essential lessons of the Kobe earthquake and the one that struck the Northridge section of Los Angeles on the same date a year earlier would read something like this...
...farmhouse where he lives with his brother, sister-in-law and his aged father, he can see from his window the coast at Xuno and the restless Atlantic beyond. It was at this beach 26 years ago that Sampedro, a mechanic, dived into a rock pool and struck his head on the bottom...
...commitment to repealing this ill-conceived measure at the first opportunity." Gingrich has called the repeal "inevitable." But the Speaker "doesn't want to pick a fight right now" with moderate Democrats who might endanger progress on his "Contract With America," says TIME's Tumulty. Instead, Gingrich reportedly struck a deal with the NRA today to delay the vote in exchange for scheduling immediate congressional hearings during which pro-gun groups can air their views...
...they can survive." Those words came to life last week for Hart's husband, the British advertising mogul Maurice Saatchi. Wounded by his ouster last month as chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi, the agency he started in 1970, which grew to be one of the largest in the world, Saatchi struck back hard. He announced he would start a rival advertising firm that will probably spirit away some of Saatchi & Saatchi's biggest clients. To add to the retribution, at least seven of the London-based agency's top executives resigned, with three saying they would join their old boss...