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...combatants had been researching scores of substances as potential weapons. The Michigan study found that none of the compounds under review was particularly toxic--which means there will be no war machines armed with ecstasy-filled bombs. It also means that although MDMA is more toxic than, say, the cactus-based psychedelic mescaline, it would take a big dose of e, something like 14 of today's purest pills ingested at once, to kill...
...already know this) and she is known as a woman who never ever goes back on her word. When Joline's husband Carl (Luke Wilson), a photojournalist whose employer is limiting him to culinary photography, leaves her with the only clue to his whereabouts-a postcard with a cactus on it from a state that looks like it has five letters in its name-she does the only logical thing she can do. She rents a car, packs a suitcase full of see-through but Hindi-influenced t-shirts, and drives to Texas (Maine, the other five letter state, doesn...
...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...
...Cactus Hill presents still more corroboration. Taking its name from the prickly pears that grow at the site, it was discovered in 1988 by a sharp-eyed farmer named Harold Conover, who alerted researchers to some curious stone tools he had spotted in road sand dug up from an old pit nearby. In 1989, McAvoy's team began excavations, now sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the state of Virginia. So far, the team has unearthed a variety of Paleo-Indian stone tools shaped for hunting, butchering and processing game; charred bones of mud turtles, white-tailed deer...
...most startling idea is raised by Stanford, who says the Cactus Hill tools resemble even older ones found in Spain and France. He and archaeologist Bruce Bradley of Cortez, Colo., propose that the first people to reach the Americas worked their way across the Atlantic from the Iberian Peninsula some 17,000 to 18,000 years...