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...with armored cars and barbed-wire barricades, there was the clatter of stones, bottles and bits of steel as the troops were attacked by what the army described as "200 or 300 young hooligans." The army responded, first with gas grenades and rubber bullets-ugly black projectiles half as thick as beer cans-then with water cannons that sprayed the crowd with purple...
...century B.C. by the Queen's husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten. After analyzing photographs of 35,000 pieces of this archaeological jigsaw puzzle, Smith reports that Nefertiti is depicted more often than the Pharaoh-an unheard-of honor for a woman of her time. Akhenaten's own portraits depict thick lips, feminine hips and thighs, and rudimentary breasts. The King, says Archaeologist Smith, may have suffered from a hormonal malfunction that left him simpleminded and sterile. All of which suggests to Smith that Nefertiti's six daughters were not sired by her husband, and that she played a large...
...birds bedevils Scotland Neck, N.C. (pop. 2,869). There, perhaps 20 million blackbirds are jammed into 60 to 85 acres of pine and hardwood trees. Branches have broken under the weight of the birds, and the accumulated carpet of guano in some sections of the woods is a foot thick. No one can figure out why the birds chose this particular town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds. It's sure to stop...
...starlings had found Radford a most enticing spot. They could feast on the grain that local farmers set out to feed their cattle, and they discovered an especially thick two-acre bosque of warm pines in the center of town, which was an ideal roosting place. The townsfolk, bird lovers all, did not find the situation all that ideal. Radford's starlings 1) raised an ear-splitting racket, 2) produced so many droppings that the whole town, said a resident, smelled "like a wet chicken coop," and 3) crowded out indigenous birds like cardinals, robins and martins. Since...
...late '60's, Northwestern's hockey teams, composed of Massachusetts high school who were too bad to play B.C. and too thick to get into Harvard, were wallowing at the of Division...