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ThLii'sJiiv, September 7J 3 wed isday, September 7, 2000 NEWS Page 3B THE BATTALION News in Brief ie offensive MVPofthel iiniem. federal judge rules lose injuries have taken . of a&m's top prospectsf ( ( gainst MP3.com season. Yet the Aggies! NEW YORK (AP) — A federal een able to take clown son 1( jge ruled Wednesday that the ountry s top teams andci,ternet music-sharing service Jo. 7 seat in the polls. 11p3.com willfully violated the (will have to try and man opyrights of record companies, status with a thin benchij nd ordered it to pay Universal ime key veterans, withTTn lusic Group $25,000 per CD, p the list. rroughly $118 million. ' U.S. District Judge Jed S. lakoff said it was necessary to : end a message to the Internet UP Jommuntv to deter copyright in- frorn Page IB ingement. Rakoff said he could have ip and much of their lean warded as much as $150,000 m the ‘98 squad. er CD but chose a consider- n asset is their athletki Olysmaler amount, in part be- iH and the Ainiies willl ause MP3.com had acted that as welf as the Ga*, 10re res PO n sibly than other In- ■ , fnet startups. L 1 ., D , Universal Music Group, the ,IL ‘ ^ eatner Ka p tlale 'I orld’s largest record company, I _ Of tensive I layer of aC j urged a stiff penalty in the he matchup with theGi losely watched case, inoles could play intoar “Music is a media and the next .is>e. * tfringement may be very differ- iv with a lot more <ped nt '" saicj Universal lawyer Hadri- pace (than Hartford or! n Katz. It may be video or it may • * a i, .u Mrf «f ||m o''t may be books or it dale said. Also, theirfe ,^06 3001611,108very different." I l()l 11H )IC like' ours, ion of the country spon i dictate what type of pi. use. In New England, last weekend, there ed crass that slowedfe Turbo power STUART VILLANUEVA/Thk Battalion Brandon Spowl, a second-year mechanical en gineering graduate student, tightens hydraulic hoses on a machine used to test gas seals at the turbomachinery laboratory Wednesday. 'iJ Militiamen storm U.N. office in West Timor lively necatine the A ; (AP) — Piles of human bones med anc boiled, smashed and aped. Cooking pots smeared with i, as Ragsdale said, the y trimmed Bermuda s 'an opposite effect« ii careening abouithifivestigaing ancient cannibals :eam speed necessary to able to pass the ballan i to and play ourstylej nciei did last weekend. e evidena has been found, researchers believe, of cannibalism fancient people m the American Southwest. Here is a look at how the felling where evionce was found may have looked In 1150 A.D. tcavatmg the ruin,investigators found dues to reconstruct the scene. u ' iff pen Aggies might receive from this much-bally eather, where tem been dropping like erin New England last" egrees for both games.f xperiencing more Texas , but is expecting thut iihout the next few day PASTA? istas, owl j. 76-1921 nt living quarters Hatcn in the cribbed roof erved as main entraice and chimney. lorage imber had Benmea were sealed, recesed Into 'y the wills, lemed Stone deflector kept draft from scattering fire Grain was ground a partitoned area. tearthing cues e site was abandoned almost immediately after the cannibalism jurred Investjators theorize that, in a time of severe drought, marauders ty have terrdzed and eaten the farming families living there. & ie roof had Human excrement, found ion left intact. In the hearth, tested cause tlmbei positive for human scarce, root myoglobin, a protein that re typically carries oxygen from the imantled whe bloodstream into muscle felling was cells, andoned. Excavation site 0 Valuable tools and ornamental objects were left behind. o Human remains had been processed, as If for food preparation. Deper COLORADO Dwelling shown above -i Trash pits ■Dwellings ■■c©* ^ blood. A few years ago, anthropolo gists in the American Southwest un covered the grisly remains of what appeared to be an ancient cannibal feast, but they lacked the biological proof. Laboratory tests on some <■ of the artifacts, including a piece of human excrement, have revealed traces of a hu- * man protein that scientists say is the first direct evi dence of cannibalism among the Anasazi, whose empire stretched irvto present-day Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. “This proves they put the meat in their mouths,” said Richard Marlar, a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver who devel oped the biochemical tests to detect the protein. “If you didn't eat human beings, this protein would not show up.” The excavation site, con sisting of three collapsed pit dwellings nicknamed Cow boy Wash near Dolores, Colo., was occupied about 1150A.D. It was abandoned after seven people were butchered there. The findings were pub lished in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. J. Gilbert, J. Jurgenaen/AP Other anthropologists said the protein evidence is convincing. It does not explain exactly who com mitted the cannibalism or why. Nor does it demonstrate that the Anasazi commonly ate their own, whether for nourishment or in a re ligious ritual. “I doubt it was a routine thing at all in the culture of the early pueblo people, any more than it was routine in any other culture,” said anthro pologist William Lipe of Washing ton State University. Among modern-day Indians of the Southwest, leaders of the Hopi, Zuni and other tribes have been es pecially critical of cannibalism re search. Terry Knight, a.Ute MountainUte tribal leader who supervised the ex cavation, said of the findings: “Like any other civilization, there were good, productive people, and there were bad people.” Knight said he hopes the evidence of cannibalism will force anthropolo gists to revise their thinking about the Anasazi culture. He said ancient Indi an culture is too often treated in sim plistic terms when it was in reality complex, with many different tribes. Cowboy Wash was one of about 10 Anasazi homesteads in the Four Corners region. Today’s inhabitants, the Utes, commissioned archaeolo gists to conduct a scientific survey before installing an irrigation system. Even without the specter of canni balism, the Anasazi are a mysterious lost culture. They built an elaborate network of roads and ceremonial cen ters throughout the Southwest after 700 A.D. that were keenly oriented to the heavens. Severe drought helped to disperse the society by 1300 A.D. Forty miles east of Cowboy Wash stands Mesa Verde, now an elaborate ghost city protected by cliffs and served by aqueducts. Most Anasazi lived in hardscrabble settlements, growing corn and hunting game. The pit dwellings at Cowboy Wash appear to have been heavily used for many years, then suddenly aban doned. They contained pots, grinding stones, jewelry and other valuables. In the ruins, researchers also found seven dismembered skeletons in 1994. The bones had been stripped of their flesh, then roasted and cracked for their fatty marrow. 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