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...plow through the literature of Afrocentrism is to enter a world of claims about technological innovation so absurd that they lie beyond satire, like those made for Soviet science in Stalin's time. Afrocentrists have at one time or another claimed that Egyptians, alias Africans, invented the wet-cell battery by observing electric eels in the Nile; and that late in the 1st millennium B.C., they took to flying around in gliders. (This news is based not on the discovery of an aircraft in an Egyptian tomb but on a silhouette wooden votive sculpture of the god Horus, a falcon...
...dreams of a wet Christmas, but that's what it was for thousands of Texans last week. Record-breaking December rains sent more than half a dozen rivers overflowing their banks, flooding homes, inundating farmland and drowning cattle in the central and southeastern parts of the state. The fast- rising waters left at least 15 people dead and caused damage estimated in the millions...
...Administration proposed a new definition of a wetland that would open at least 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of off-limits land to development. It was a good try, but opposition prompted the White House to back away, at least temporarily, from a policy change that was all wet...
...know him as a joyless monomaniac who pursued achievement not out of passion for the undertaking but out of a tortured focus on the finish line. "He told me 20 times that he never liked sailing," says Wussler. "He said, 'You know, Bob, I got cold and I got wet.' He was more in love with just winning." These days Turner talks about the "Zen experience" of fly-fishing. He has stopped pacing around his home and office (Wussler once counted 74 consecutive circles). And when it is suggested that heaven for Turner might be an eternal baseball game...
...Kwanzaa gifts; they rationalize the excess by buying from black-owned businesses. That, they say, is in the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics. "This is the U.S., and if anything becomes successful, it almost automatically becomes commercial," says Copage. "Doing otherwise is like trying to surf without getting wet...