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...shelter during the Cuban missile crisis, with the parents squabbling over who will dispose of any bodies they find outside. ("It's always me!" Mom grouses. "Doing the dishes, washing the windows, burying the dead!") "I think any warm and fuzzy image of the past is wrong," says creator Howard Gewirtz. "I was around back then. There were dysfunctional families. If anything, the world situation was more threatening...
This one was almost a stealth mission, witnessed by only a few friends, Japanese officials and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, along with the island's residents and a CNN crew, which recorded the event for broadcast later this fall. Bush flew by private jet to Iwo Jima, first walking the black sand beach where Marines landed in 1945 and helping raise a flag on Mount Suribachi, where Marines raised the U.S. flag in the famous war picture. "I choked back a tear," he said. Then Bush boarded a Japanese helicopter and retraced the route of his mission...
...MUSIC BOX It seems an unlikely place to find a jazz club, but Vinaigrette, on the top floor of the Howard Johnson AlQasr Hotel, tel: (962) 6568 9671, in the Shmeisani district of Amman, is where people in the know meet for late-night drinks and Arab fusion music. The glass walls of the bar offer spectacular night views over the capital; in the summer the open terrace is a great place to catch a cool breeze away from the traffic noise and pollution of town. The room is dark and intimate, and the tables small; each is graced with...
Losick, who is Cabot professor of biology, was one of 20 science professors nationwide to receive grants from the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The prizes are the largest-ever endowed to individuals for scientific teaching, according to Steve Barkanic, the institute’s program director for undergraduate science education...
Whoever is right, it's clear that when British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb 80 years ago, he found a grave like no other. As Pharaonic burial sites go, Tut's was slapdash. Not only did its modest size suggest it had been intended for a nonroyal, but it was also hastily decorated, with wall paintings marred by splashes of paint nobody ever cleaned up. Some of the elaborate artifacts that so captivated the world appear to have been obtained from a funerary warehouse, since close examination reveals that other people's names were erased from them...