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More than 300 paintings were discovered late last year in a cave near the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in southern France, the French government has revealed. Experts say the 20,000-year-old gallery may surpass the famous grottoes at Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain. The cavern was said to be perfectly intact, with animal bones, flint knives and even footprints preserved on the floor...
...Harvard football season started off very promising, but it fizzled down the stretch. Sophomore running back Eion Hu, however, was simply unstoppable throughout the campaign. Hu, who win the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award, racked up 1011 yards--the second Crimson player ever to surpass the 1000-yard mark for a season...
...other promotion, most of it attacking Feinstein as a political hack. As a result, "the race is up for grabs," says Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll, a nonpartisan California survey. By the time the showdown is over on Nov. 8, spending by both candidates is expected to surpass $30 million, making it the most expensive Senate race in history...
Though precedented, The University Campaign--a five-year effort aimed at raising nearly $2.1 billion--will almost certainly succeed, and even surpass expectations for its success. Even before it was announced, the campaign had accumulated a nucleus fund of just over $652n million, more than a quarter of its target. In all likelihood, a healthy infusion of cash will keep the $6 billion coffers of the world's wealthiest university brimming. And that is good...
...think they did surpass me," says Cox, whowrote a book on Columbia's 1968 protests. "I don'tthink I foresaw anything like the occupation ofUniversity Hall that started all this...