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There has been continuous habitation of the Hell Gap area since late glacial times, according to age determinations made by the radiocarbon method...
Bartering is the world's oldest method of doing business; Esau, one of its early practitioners, swapped his birthright for a mess of pottage. Though the easy flow of money and credit has long since ruled out any need for widespread swapping, the surprising fact is that bartering survives in today's sophisticated international trade. It is even undergoing something of a revival as more nations sign trade agreements to exchange yearly quotas of goods and commodities with one another; more than 490 such agreements are now in force. About 20 companies, mostly in Switzerland, Holland and Britain...
...Conspiracy Against America first came to light in 1797, when the pulpits of New England rang with denunciations of the Illuminati, a sinister society of freethinkers who were purportedly prepared to attack the U.S. with a number of secret weapons-among them a tea that caused abortion and a "method for filling a bedchamber with pestilential vapours." By 1835, control of the conspiracy had passed to the Pope, whose Jesuits were reported "prowling about all parts of the United States in disguise" and conjugating in clandestine convents with unnatural nuns. By 1951, according to Senator McCarthy, the perennial enemy...
...Method. On offense, St. Joe's relies mainly on a pro-style fast break, with Guard Matt Guokas acting as "the quarterback"-taking the ball up the center of the court and passing off to one of his two forwards for the shot. Guokas, says Coach Dolph Schayes of the pro Philadelphia Warriors, "could play for me right now." Ramsay's only complaint is that Matt, who is the best shot as well as the best playmaker on the team, is inclined to pass off too often. There's a method. So far this season, Guokas...
...your story "The Gem of the Gizmos" [Dec. 3], you forgot to mention the use of the paper clip as a surgical tool. Heated in a Bunsen burner, it provides the ideal method of releasing the blood under a smashed fingernail-better than a dentist's drill, a sharp knife, etc. It is painless (the blood cools the clip as soon as it burns through) and fast...