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...proving that tale true was always a long shot, say the scientists who excavated the tomb, which is near Tut's and is known as KV63. And as the last of the coffins was opened to great fanfare last week, the skeptics turned out to be right. There was no mummy--and no Mummy--inside. Still, that doesn't put KV63 in the same category as Al Capone's infamously empty vault. The coffin was filled with ancient embalming materials, strips of linen and funerary garlands and collars made of dried flowers. That, says lead excavator Otto Schaden...
...Chicago and Cook County are prime examples of how not to run local government," says Stewart. "It's a cautionary tale that shows what happens when there is no transparency or accountability." And, as it has seemed lately, no functioning government...
...Suskind's tale that U.S. intelligence believed al-Qaeda plotted a hydrogen-cyanide gas attack on New York City subways in 2003 - only to have it aborted by al-Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, because, some U.S. intelligence officials surmise, it wouldn't be dramatically bigger than al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks - is excerpted in this week's issue of TIME. U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed Suskind's reporting, including Zawahiri's decision to halt the attack. A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Suskind is also the author of the 2004 book...
...nutrition and lifestyle issues, including sleep and behavior. In this way, it may be possible to get the best results for children and adults who suffer from autism as well as many other neurological disabilities. Basil Ziv, Executive Director Association for the Neurologically Disabled of Canada Etobicoke, Canada "A tale of two schools" clarified the importance of treating the core deficits of children who suffer from autism: a lack of flexible thought and spontaneous communication, and lagging social and emotional development. It emphasized the role of emotion in learning, something that people have known for years and yet somehow tend...
...approach as the only way to combat a liberal advantage. "Conservatives don't control the faculty. They don't control the administration. They don't control the student government," he says. Among the conservative students I have met over the past few months, nearly every one has offered a tale of antiright bias: half a dozen kids at different schools in California and New York told me their professors had derided President Bush in class. Others complained about the proliferation of programs in women's studies, African-American studies--even labor studies--while conservative scholars such as Milton Friedman...