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Archaeologists in the Holy Land like to joke that their profession is vulnerable to a milder form of the syndrome. When scientists find a cracked, oversize skull in the Valley of Elah, it can be hard to resist the thought that it might have belonged to Goliath, or to imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

The story begins with a right-wing Jewish settler organization called Elad, but also known as the Ir David Foundation, which for the past four years has exerted control over most of the holy city's excavations. Led by David Be'eri, an ex-Israeli commando who used to disguise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Another factor contributing to the devastation was the outdated warning scheme then used throughout the country. The Forest Fire Danger Index (FDI), invented by scientist Alan McArthur in the 1960s, evaluates the difficulty in extinguishing fires under various combinations of temperature and wind. For most of years since it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After Fires, Australia Debates What Went Wrong | 2/7/2010 | See Source »

That question is a long way from being answered, but a study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a small step in that direction. A team of researchers used 22 years' worth of carefully accumulated measurements of hardwood forests in and near the Smithsonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Eastern Trees in the Midst of a Growth Spurt | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

Forest biologists already know that, all things being equal, trees grow more rapidly when they're young, then taper off as they mature, and that you can chart the standard curve of growth for a given forest type by looking at the kind of snapshots Parker and his colleagues used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Eastern Trees in the Midst of a Growth Spurt | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

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