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Unearthing the Truth

Paige Williams’s Profile of the controversial paleoanthropologist Lee Berger reveals the discrepancies between the claims that Berger makes about his discoveries and his actual accomplishments (“Digging for Glory,” June 27th). Numerous scientists have questioned Berger’s assertion that the fossils he found in the Rising Star cave system, in South Africa, displayed “ritualized behaviors directed toward the dead”—a claim that, if true, would mean Homo sapiens is not the only species with funerary practices. Читать дальше...

Morgan Freeman was surprised that his dreadlocks kept hitting him in the face. Freeman, who’s seventy-nine, has been acting since he was in grade school, and in the course of his long career has played everything from a chauffeur, a pimp, and God (twice) to the voice of history, narrating Hillary Clinton’s introduction film at the D.N.C. None of these roles have involved more elaborate costumes—or, at least, more elaborate hair—than that of Ilderim, a rich Nubian, circa 30 A.D. Ilderim’s dreads reach practically to his elbows. Читать дальше...

The piaffe is probably the most demanding and exquisite movement in the Olympic sport of dressage. A horse in piaffe defies what horses otherwise do. Instead of going anywhere, it jogs on the spot, three-quarters of a ton of moving muscle, feet rising and falling in the same four hoofprints like an animation in a flip book. Next week, in Rio de Janeiro, seven judges around an arena, known as a manège, will evaluate the piaffes of the four-day dressage competition. In addition to making sure that the horses don’t go forward or backward... Читать дальше...

Before Nicolás (Shaco) Flores was killed, deep in the Peruvian rain forest, he had spent decades reaching out to the mysterious people called the Mashco Piro. Flores lived in the Madre de Dios region—a vast jungle surrounded by an even vaster wilderness, frequented mostly by illegal loggers, miners, narco-traffickers, and a few adventurers. For more than a hundred years, the Mashco had lived in almost complete isolation; there were rare sightings, but they were often indistinguishable from backwoods folklore. Читать дальше...

In January of 2014, Barack Obama, speaking to the press before a Cabinet meeting, said something that has come to define his Presidency: “We are not just going to be waiting for legislation. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions.” In the thirty-one months since, in the face of congressional intransigence, he has used executive power to commit the U.S. to the Paris Agreement on climate change, to... Читать дальше...

Every time Gucci Mane gets out of jail, he likes to go straight to the recording studio—a habit that is acknowledged among his fans as a testament to both his work ethic and his turbulent life. On May 26th, it was time for another reintroduction. Freed once more, after serving three years in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm, Gucci Mane went to the studio. Less than twenty-four hours later, he released a grim comeback track, “1st Day Out tha Feds,” sounding defiant: “I bend, don’t break... Читать дальше...

Lynette was on Oxford Street, which was a stupid place to be at any time, and especially at five o’clock on a winter afternoon. It was her own fault. She’d gone into John Lewis after work for a few things she needed, and then she’d tried on some clothes, which she hadn’t meant to, and now she was stuck in a crowd of other shoppers and workers, fuming inwardly and shuffling in half steps, funnelling into the entrance to the Underground. Everybody was shapeless, muffled in down coats, hooded. Sleet... Читать дальше...

There’s a moment in Jay McInerney’s new novel, “Bright, Precious Days” (Knopf), when one of its principals, a book editor in his early fifties, comes to feel that he is a failure: “How was it that after working so hard and by many measures succeeding and even excelling in his chosen field, he couldn’t afford to save this house that meant so much to his family? Their neighbors seemed to manage, thousands of people no smarter than he was—less so, most of them—except perhaps in their understanding... Читать дальше...

They perched on bar stools, their bodies long and lean, like eels, the women in sleeveless dresses the color of flowers or fruit (marigold, tangerine), the men in fitted suits the color of embers (charcoal, ash). Makeshift television studios lined the floor and the balcony of the convention hall: CNN, Fox, CBS, Univision, PBS. MSNBC built a pop-up studio on East Fourth Street, a square stage raised above the street, like an outdoor boxing ring. “Who won today? Who will win tomorrow?” the networks asked. Читать дальше...

America’s top military officer met with U.S. troops at Incirlik Air Base Monday ahead of talks with top Turkish officials in an effort to ease the strained relations between the two strategic partners.

At least four people died in an explosion and shootout at a hotel for foreigners in Kabul early Monday, just days after the deadliest attack on the capital in 15 years.

At least four people died in an explosion and shootout at a hotel for foreigners in Kabul early Monday, just days after the deadliest attack on the capital in 15 years.

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The creator of the World Peace Game will be in Corvallis this week for a screening of a film about the game and a panel discussion on how it can advance the cause of preventing war.

Roberta Sward can't get to her home northwest of Conestoga Lake as easily as she once could.

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KABUL, Afghanistan, July 31 (UPI) -- The Taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack on a compound in Kabul that began with a massive truck bomb. A gun battle is still ensuing.

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KABUL, Afghanistan, July 31 (UPI) -- The Taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack on a compound in Kabul that began with a massive truck bomb. A gun battle is still ensuing.

It's an ambitious undertaking tackling this tale of obsession and revenge but this ANU student production has a lot of talent and commitment involved, both on and off stage.

A fast-moving wildfire is having a crushing effect on tourism in Big Sur, an area of central California that is famed for having among the most scenic coastlines in the country.

Ahead of Chief Minister Manohar Lal's visit to the Millennium City, traffic arrangements have finally been put into place. The Chief Minister is coming to Gurgaon today and will do an aerial survey of the city. As a result, there are unerring traffic arrangements in the city, much to the delight of the commuters.

Melbourne bayside commuters have cheered the re-opening of the Frankston line 37 days after they were forced onto buses during construction works.

A Bronx assemblyman says an NYPD cop turned on him, lifting and pinning him.

Working from a new translation by Karen Vickery, this Sport for Jove production is a more faithful rendering of Chekhov than others we've seen of late, such as Andrew Upton's The Present.

Socceroo forward James Troisi has re-joined Melbourne Victory on a one-year deal in a major boost for the A-League powerhouse.