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...Kingsolver's new novel, "Prodigal Summer" (HarperCollins; 444 pages; $26), which is something of a return to the author's earlier form. It is an altogether lighter and more easygoing affair than its immediate predecessor. Its setting has narrowed from the vast heart of Africa to a mountain and valley in southern Appalachia over the course of a single hot and unusually rainy summer. Its subject is not the clash of ideologies but the rhythms of nature and man's misguided attempts to interfere with them...
Stanford Business School and Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, which are both precipitously close to Silicon Valley, felt the sharpest drops--more than 20 percent since...
...Survivor-in-space show was being pitched by Dreamtime Holdings, a Silicon Valley media company that had already signed an agreement with NASA to fly high-definition TV equipment aboard the space station and then market the images that were produced. With NASA apparently behind Dreamtime's new idea, no fewer than three major networks--CBS, ABC and Fox--were said to be interested...
...antiquities guard fell into a hole that led directly to an undiscovered tomb filled with gold-covered mummies. Since then, Hawass and his team have been digging extensively in Bahariya, turning up hundreds of mummies and treasures beyond imagination. Some of their findings appear in Hawass's Valley of the Golden Mummies (Abrams; $49.50; 224 pages), a richly illustrated text due in bookstores this month. Others, unearthed after the book was finished, appear on these pages...
Less ancient but more glamorous wonders are being unearthed in 1st and 2nd century tombs. The sites Hawass opened in 1999 became known as the Valley of the Golden Mummies, for the gilded masks and chest plates that cover many of the interred. An additional seven tombs opened this year revealed 102 more gilded or painted remains. Copper bracelets, obsidian decorations and even what appears to be gaming pieces and dice have been uncovered as well. All told, more than 10,000 mummies may be buried in the ancient necropolis...