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Just from looking at a man's face, women can sense how much he likes children, gauge his testosterone level and decide whether he would be more suitable as a one-night stand or as a husband, new research suggests. Scientists in Chicago and California photographed men's faces and asked women to rate them on whether they seemed to like children, on their masculinity, on their physical attractiveness and on whether they seemed kind. Then the women rated them on their potential as long- and short-term lovers.

CHICAGO -- The oldest known piece of cloth, woven 9,000 years ago near the headwaters of the Tigris River, is helping archaeologists weave together the still incomplete story of humanity's civilizing march from the cave to the city.Discovery of the 3-inch-by-1 1/2 -inch fossilized swatch of cloth was announced yesterday by the University of Chicago and Istanbul University. A team of archaeologists from the two universities found the cloth, woven from flax fibers, at the site of an ancient village they have been excavating jointly since 1964.

This book is a good antidote for anyone with a lump in his throat or a bad taste in his mouth left over from the Bettelheim affair.At the time of his death two years ago, Bruno Bettelheim was hailed as one of the founding fathers of child psychiatry. Dr. B., as colleagues and patients knew him, achieved a celebrity far beyond that usually won by even the most important scientists or physicians. "The Informed Heart," "Love Is Not Enough" and his other books were household manuals for thousands of families whose children were free of the terrible maladies he treated in his famed therapeutic school at the University of Chicago.

Retired Lt. Col. William R. Corson -- author, teacher, spy, combat Marine and special assistant to presidents from Eisenhower through Johnson -- died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda yesterday morning of pulmonary disease aggravated by lung cancer. He was 74. Colonel Corson, who joined the Marines as a 17-year-old high school dropout during World War II, was the first commanding officer of the military's "Combined Action Program" in Vietnam. The project teamed Marines with South Vietnamese soldiers in an effort to recover countryside lost to the Communists.

Looking and acting something like an underwater canister vacuum cleaner, a prehistoric marine reptile apparently used its extremely long neck to sneak up on and suck in unwary fish swimming in murky shoreline waters 230 million years ago. The creature was discovered two years ago in China and named Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, or "terrible-headed lizard from the Orient." Figuring out what the fossil was and how it lived took the combined skills of the Chinese paleontologist who found it, an expert on fossil reptiles from the Field Museum in Chicago and a University of Chicago expert in biomechanics who studies how scallops swim.

Inez Duffin Key, 98, who headed home economics departments at two Baltimore high schools, died Nov. 16 at Keswick after a heart attack.A memorial service will be held at noon tomorrow at the Russ funeral establishment, 2222 W. North Ave.Mrs. Key lived on Druid Hill Avenue for many years. She retired in 1965 from Frederick Douglass High School. She also headed the home economics department at Dunbar High School and supervised home economics teaching in evening school programs during more than 40 years in the city school system.

A 35-year-old software billionaire said yesterday that he would spend $100 million to realize his vision of 21st century higher education: a giant free Web site that would provide access to what he calls the "10,000 greatest minds of our time," in lectures and interviews recorded for the venture. Michael Saylor, the chief executive of Microstrategy, a technology company in Northern Virginia, said that his goal was "free education for everyone on Earth, forever." And he envisions his institution eventually granting degrees in countless disciplines, based on final exams that would be administered once a month in convention halls around the world, with grading done by computer whenever possible.

Services for Dr. Ellenor K. Stafford-Milio, a reading specialist and professor of communication and learning skills at Prince George's Community College, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church, East Mount Vernon Place and North Washington Place.Dr. Stafford-Milio lived in the Village of Cross Keys. She died Wednesday at Union Memorial Hospital of complications after surgery at the age of 62.Before joining the faculty of the Prince George's school, she was a reading resource teacher and specialist in the Baltimore school system between 1975 and 1986.

U.S. declares Iraq security pact final BAGHDAD: The U.S. responded yesterday to Iraqi proposals for changes in the draft security pact that would keep American troops here for three more years, saying it now considers the text final and it is up to Iraq's government to push the process to approval. U.S. and Iraqi officials would not release details of Washington's response, which was contained in a letter from President Bush to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. But a senior Iraqi official familiar with the negotiations said Washington accepted some proposals and rejected others, presumably an Iraqi demand for expanded legal authority over American troops and Defense Department contractors.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- More Americans know Katherine Dunham for her 47-day fast than for her 50-year career as a dancer.The 82-year-old began the fast Feb. 1 to protest the forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. The resulting publicity brought a stream of well-known visitors: "The Silence of the Lambs" director Jonathan Demme, the sister of former presidential hopeful Paul Tsongas, the Rev. Jesse Jackson -- and ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Ms. Dunham ended the fast when Mr. Aristide invited her to accompany him on his return to Haiti.