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...everyone knows: Queen Nefertiti and her son-in-law King Tutankhamen. Nefertiti is a limestone bust, Tutankhamen a treasure. Nothing in his reign, which began around 1361 B.C., when he was ten, and ended with his death at 18, could have secured immortality for this shadowy boy-king. King Tut owes his fame to the accident that grave robbers never looted his tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It remained intact until Nov. 26,1922, when an English archaeologist named Howard Carter chipped through a door at the end of a rubble-filled passage and thrust...
...early-on in the movement for freer classrooms, Herndon and a fellow-teacher got permission from their school to organize a daily two-hour unstructured class, which students could elect to take in place of their study halls. They planned it blithely assuming that the chance to make King Tut journals and cigar boxes instead of wasting time pretending to be busy, would thrill the kids. And besides the fun and games prospectus, they went a step further and assured the kids that there would be no grades, and that the students would be allowed to leave the classroom...
...claim." From Manchester a reader wrote: "If we can't afford free milk for our kiddies, we can't afford any increase to a very wealthy family." But Conservative M.P. Sir Stephen McAdden introduced a motion in the Commons deploring the New Statesman article. The Times editorially tut-tutted Grossman's "gratuitously offensive manner." The difficulty is that the royal budget, as presently constituted, is no longer able to support the Crown in the style to which it and its subjects have become accustomed. Of the overall $1,140,000 allotted annually, $444,000 goes for household...
...polluting their native language? None of man's specialties of self-destruction-despoliation of the environment, overpopulation, even war-appear more ingrained than his gift for fouling his mother tongue. Yet nobody dies of semantic aphasia, and by and large it gets complained about with a low-priority tut-tut...
...abundant supply -almost too abundant. The meals originally came at a rate of five a day: two in the morning, then lunch, a hefty afternoon snack, and finally dinner. "Tumtum one of the Khmers said, slapping my fat stomach. Then, slapping his own rock-hard middle, he boasted, "Kampuchea, tut-tut." Kampuchea means Cambodia in Khmer...