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...done. It may be impossible for any court to anticipate how the company might misbehave in the future. "There's a real question about whether a conduct remedy can be sufficiently forward looking," says Barry Jaruzelski, a computer analyst at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, a consulting firm based in McLean, Va...
...latest evidence against the old story was unveiled last week in Philadelphia during the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Joseph McAvoy of the Nottoway River Survey and his colleagues disclosed that an ancient campsite known as Cactus Hill, 45 miles south of Richmond, Va., has been conclusively dated at around 18,000 years old. That predates the accepted timing for the opening of that crucial ice-free corridor and bolsters the theory that the earliest Americans came by sea, possibly even from across the Atlantic rather than from Asia. "If the dates hold up, and I think...
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DIED. EDWARD KNIPLING, 90, U.S. government entomologist whose 1950s insect-eradication technique, X-ray sterilization of males to prevent offspring, saved U.S. livestock from the plague of the screwworm; in Arlington, Va. Developed with a colleague, the no-insecticide model has since been used successfully against many other insect pests...
According to preliminary market surveys, there are 10,000 would-be space tourists willing to spend $1 million each to visit the final frontier. Space Adventures in Arlington, Va., has taken more than 130 deposits for a two-hour, $98,000 space tour tentatively (and somewhat dubiously) set to occur by 2005. Says Gene Meyers of the Space Island Group: "Space is the next exotic vacation spot...