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Science News January 13, 2001 |
Rediscovering the Maya Web site on the language, calendar, architecture, and culture of ancient Maya society.  |
Science News January 6, 2001 |
TimeLine: January 3, 1931 Strange Sea Flowers Blossom on Reef... Universe Not Running Down, is Latest Hope of Science... Sun Spots May be Due to Tidal Effect of Planets...  |
Science News December 16, 2000 |
TimeLine: December 13, 1930 Susa, Oldest City on Earth, Tells About Early Culture... Standards Scientist Announces Final Gravity Constant Value... Cancer-Causing Substances Flash Own Danger Signal...  |
Salon.com December 13, 2000 Gary Taylor |
"Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood" by Gary Taylor A look at eunuchs through the ages offers a provocative take on what it means to be a man...  |
Salon.com December 12, 2000 Dan Cryer |
"One Drop of Blood" by Scott L. Malcomson In a panoramic study of American racial reality, whites, blacks and Indians jostle for position from Colonial times to the present...  |
Science News December 9, 2000 |
TimeLine: December 6, 1930 Engineers put a span in the Arlington Memorial Bridge and then hid it... The X ray is valuable in detecting disease of almost any part of the body in its early stages... Woodworking plants are becoming the major source of dust explosions...  |
| The Family Room |
Yule - The Winter Solstice Yule, or the Winter Solstice, is the oldest of the holidays celebrated in December...  |
Science News December 2, 2000 |
TimeLine: November 29, 1930 Child health weapons forged at white house conference... Million-watt broadcaster seen as next step in radio... Smoke blanket makes the city warmer...  |
Mother Jones December 2000 Verlyn Klinkenborg |
The Conscience of Place: Sand Creek National Park Service archaeologists recently established the location where the Colorado Calvary slaughtered more than 125 Cheyennes and Arapahos in 1864...  |
Salon.com November 27, 2000 John W. Dean |
Not for sissies A leading conservative scholar's hardball new translation of Tocqueville's classic "Democracy in America" is a daunting example of tough love...  |
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