Contents for Dec. 4-10, 1998

• Each summer, Professor Martha Joukowsky leaves the comforts of Providence to lead Brown students in an archaeological dig at the Great Temple of Petra in Jordan. For those itching to make archaeological discoveries in their own yards, Joukowsky and a colleague offer ideas.

• Astronomers from Brown, students and members of Rhode Island's Skyscrapers got an eyeful when they traveled to New Mexico to view the Leonid meteor storm.

• High school students from throughout New England come to campus for a United Nations simulation sponsored by the Brown Model United Nations club.

• New York Times columnist Frank Rich on campus Dec. 9

• A new project run by the Education Alliance hopes to increase the number of Southeast Asian educators in Rhode Island.

• Changes to Brown's financial aid policies would help low- and middle-class families and would increase Brown's ability to compete for the best students, says Michael Bartini, director of financial aid.

• A green bag in which to store medical supplies for recycling should be as common in the operating room as a blue recycling bin is in the household, according to a School of Medicine group working to reroute surplus medical supplies to charities.

• The Last Word from David C. Lewis, M.D.

• December NewsBytes from CIS