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Rather than catering to the needs of individual students, Expos sections, or at least mine, seem to prefer to evaluate students according to prefabricated patterns. I went through that pattern, and I still feel that my final paper--which received a significantly higher grade that the first--is interior. As a result, I passed through the course without having any concrete idea of what good writing ought to be like...
...archaeological investigation. The existence of the sister ship had been suspected since 1954, when the first vessel was discovered near the tomb of the Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Cheops, or Khufu. Work at the new site began two weeks ago. The trick was to probe the chamber without disturbing the interior -- including the 4,600-year-old air that might reveal secrets of the ancient atmosphere...
...cleaner at the site sucked the dust from around the hole once the drilling got under way. To see inside the vault, technicians modified a miniature remote-controlled video camera so it could be inserted into the 3 1/2-in.-wide entrance hole. The camera, originally designed to probe the interior of nuclear reactors, provided fiber- optic light without introducing any heat into the chamber. Over the site was a makeshift scaffold and the flags of Egypt and the National Geographic Society, the principal sponsor of the $250,000 project...
...State Department officials expressed surprise; Interior Minister Manuel Bartlett Diaz and Energy Minister Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez were considered likelier choices. While Salinas, like De la Madrid, is favorably disposed toward Washington, he is expected to keep his distance lest he offend Mexican sensibilities. "Salinas is hardheaded enough to know that Mexico's future is bound to the U.S. and not to a tiny Third World country in Central America," says a European diplomat based in Mexico City, referring to Nicaragua. "But there has to be a little prickliness in the relationship for it to be right...
Hunt says that he is not afraid of having the center reviewed, but adds that researchers want to be judged by "an established review committee" rather than laymen. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of the Interior, and the state of Massachusetts all review the New England Primate Center at different times, under different codes. One such review, an announced visit by 19 scientists representing NIH, was conducted September...