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...after a year of excavation at one of the more promising sites, a rectangular patch along the River Dee, the archaeologists have made a discovery that could sharply revise prevailing ideas about the beginnings of civilization in Scotland. Located near Balbridie Farm in Kincardineshire, on a sprawling estate west of Aberdeen, the dig has revealed the remains of what may be the oldest structure yet found in the British Isles: a late Stone Age building, reminiscent of the chieftains' hall in the epic Beowulf, that dates back some 6,000 years...
...legislature's action, police stumbled upon more than an acre of pot near a shed stocked with drying racks, bags and labels with the brand name American Dream printed in purple. Then a logger was nearly killed when he tripped a dynamite trap around a well-tended marijuana patch. "That's when we began to think that this was serious business," recalls Oregon Narcotics Agent Garold Assmus...
Politics, though, isn't something Richardson is much interested in talking about. He'd rather mention the $50 Savings Bond and two free theater tickets he won a few years ago for his design of the patch used on uniforms worn by security guards. The job itself interests him. He likes to talk about...
Harvard's Alex Vik carded an 86, marred by a ten on the 16th hole. His drive bounded into the woods, putting him "in jail." He took a lusty cut with his second shot, decimating a colony of beetles and cutting a yard-long swath through a dandelion patch in the process. The stung ball scooted into the clear, hit a rock and ricocheted skyward, landing well behind the bewildered...
...panic. Worried marijuana smokers in Urbana, Ill., told a drug counselor that several of them had vomited and passed out after smoking pot. G.D. Searle Laboratories in Skokie, Ill., reported that 39 out of 40 marijuana samples tested had traces of paraquat. "People are running scared," says Dr. Vernon Patch, a Boston drug-abuse expert. "A situation exists which borders on hysteria," agrees the deputy director of the Illinois dangerous-drugs commission, Daniel Behnke...