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They were in the wrong place, but Steve Webb's archaeology class decided to stay anyway. A colleague had mistakenly taken them to a site they'd never visited before, a nondescript-looking claypan lost among the pale dunes in the Willandra Lakes region of far western New South Wales. Luckily, Webb thought it would still make good practice fieldwork for his Aboriginal students after a week of classes in the nearby town of Mildura. He was walking behind one of them, 26-year-old Mary Pappin Jr., when she called out that she'd seen something. What...
Matisyahu “Youth” Dir. Marc Webb Picture this exchange: “Have you ever heard Jay-Z?” “No, what’s he like?” “Jay-Z is a male, African-American, Brooklyn-born, rapper!” “Wow! That’s a hilarious and totally unlikely combi-nation! I’ll be sure to listen to him a lot now.” This would be, of course, ridiculous, but the phrasing’s not that...
Former Institute of Politics (IOP) Fellow James H. Webb announced last Tuesday that he will seek the Virginia Democratic Party nomination to run for U.S. Senate this year. If he lands the nomination, Webb, who served as Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan, will run against one-term incumbent Senator George Allen, R-Va. The Harvard community greeted news of Webb’s decision to join the race with interest and enthusiasm. IOP Director of Communications Esten Perez said that “as a nonpartisan institute, the IOP doesn’t support or oppose specific...
McCain also caught a break last week when James Webb, Navy Secretary under Ronald Reagan, announced he would run as a Democrat against Republican Senator George Allen of Virginia. Allen had hoped to have only token opposition in his re-election bid this year, making it possible for him to also build the machinery for a 2008 presidential run. But with the charismatic Webb as a possible opponent, Allen will have to stick close to home...
...which rangers captured a crocodile, then shot a rifle near it, repeatedly circled it in a boat, and dazzled it with a spotlight. Says one ranger: "That croc has behaved itself ever since." But not all experts endorse such tactics. At Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Professor Graham Webb, who pioneered crocodile research and management in the Northern Territory, says unpleasant encounters with humans make the reptiles much harder to spot. "All it will do is make them wary," he says. "And you won't see them - so you'll think it's safe to go swimming...