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...million more in federal matching funds on the way. Small wonder that Clinton fund raiser Bob Farmer proclaims, "This will be all over by Illinois," one of the two big Rust Belt primaries (Michigan is the other) that will be held on March 17. Much of the upcoming political terrain is made to order for Clinton, the lone Southerner in the race and the contender who appears most at ease courting black voters. Between March 3 and Super Tuesday, nine states below the Mason-Dixon Line will hold primaries...
...Marketplace) on a map drawn by Ptolemy in the 2nd century A.D. The spot is in present-day Oman at the edge of the Empty Quarter, an appropriate designation for a trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins of a primitive fort. Using ground-penetrating radar and sounding devices, the explorers discovered...
Vincent Scully, Professor of the history of art emeritus at Yale University and one of this century's most penetrating and influential writers on architecture, offers Architecture as an eloquent synopsis of a distinguished career. It covers the familiar terrain of the history of Western architecture (from the Pyramids of ancient Egypt to Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington, D.C.), while incorporating a brief discussion of the architecture of pre-Colombian North America and the ancient Near East...
...rampant paving of the countryside -- from parking lots to malls and office complexes -- has made deluges more dangerous by robbing the terrain of its natural ability to absorb rainwater. Water racing across concrete or asphalt travels up to 10 times as fast as it does across a meadow. Often it is funneled into streams and creeks too narrow, shallow and winding to accommodate the rushing runoff...
...bones have been removed, it is possible that a few teeth or other fragments might remain. But it would be next to impossible to lug the necessary gear up the mountain, and Vietnam's Soviet-built helicopters are too large and unreliable to risk setting down in that treacherous terrain. Another joint team visited the area last month to see if they could pinpoint the gravesites. The U.S. side took its findings back to Hawaii and Texas for further investigation...