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...initiators of the series, Britain's Granada Television, approached the adaptation of Jewel with a method that seemed like madness. Half of the episodes were directed by Television Veteran Christopher Morahan, 55 (Uncle Vanya, Old Times), the other half by Jim O'Brien, 37, who has directed a number of documentaries and theatrical productions. In addition, the film makers decided to brave four months' shooting on location in India, an adventure that involved wrangling 300 containers of equipment past vigilant customs officers, recruiting local beggars to act as extras and running up a tab of $7 million...
...more about the safety pins and sewers of Athens than we did about the ships that made Athens great." The hull of this wreck, for example, tells much about shipbuilding techniques. Apparently the vessel was constructed by building the outer shell first, then adding ribs for reinforcement, the same method utilized 1,000 years later. Bass surmises that the wreck will disclose a great deal about the ships used in the Trojan War, though probably nothing about the face that launched them. The cache of nearly two dozen cobalt-blue glass ingots, about 7 in. in diameter, is the earliest...
...status of women; of a heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used two body substances, estrogen and progesterone, Rock, a daily Mass-going Roman Catholic, believed the church might accept it as a "natural" family-planning device. When Pope Paul VI banned all forms of artificial contraception...
...settled an argument in 1970 with a fellow Colorado Party member by drawing first blood in a saber duel (legal in Uruguay under a 1920 law). He vowed last week as President to take a more conciliatory approach to Uruguay's problems. Said he: "Nobody has a mathematical method to prevent a new coup. The only way is to act maturely...
...championship of rigorous intellectual inquiry as a means of revivifying faith placed him among the foremost Christian thinkers of the 20th century; in Pickering, Ont. A demanding and temperamental teacher, the priest was the author of two densely reasoned, seminal texts: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972). Lonergan sought to reshape theological inquiry in light of modern scientific and philosophical advances...