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DIED. E.T. HALL, 77, archaeologist and leading archaeometrist who famously uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; in Oxford, England. Using X-ray fluorescence, Hall showed that the Piltdown Man's skeleton--once thought to be evolution's "missing link"--had been stained to look fossilized and that the teeth of an orangutan had been filed to appear more human...
...elder brother studying mechanical engineering, and I was interested in that. My parents had another child between my brother and me who died when he was three or four. I don't remember him, but my father once showed me a little biscuit with the boy's teeth marks in it. Now I look back, and I see pictures of the little boy and the terrible suffering in his face, and I realize that he died of a heart problem and that had he lived in my time, I, as a cardiac surgeon, probably could have cured...
...extent of double talk and hedging is more than a little remarkable - for an event that has no teeth, the WCAR is sure causing a lot of discomfort. The U.S. is not attending, of course. Or is it? Well, it's pulled Colin Powell, but the Administration is sending a delegation headed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Michael E. Southwick. His delegation is not attending as such; they're showing up to "work the halls" against anti-Israel language. But they have to register as delegates in order to gain access. If they fail to protect Israel from being...
...Capitol Hill. By Aug. 3, it was apparent that lawmakers from both parties would bury any cuts he proposed. Republicans were locked and loaded; Democrats pretended to be sympathetic, just for fun. Says Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a former Army officer: "He was sailing into the teeth of a storm everywhere he looked...
...media sinks its teeth deeper into the story, Chandra Levy's disappearance becomes less about the person and more about the scandal. Levy has been lost twice - first physically, and now in the media coverage...