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Wilson’s latest book, “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge,” calls for “a convergence of thought and ethics comparable to the Age of Enlightenment during the 17th and 18h centuries,” wrote paleontologist Michael J. Novacek in Wilson’s Time profile...
...first take a stroll from the hotel through gorgeous, weather-worn Old Havana, where many of the palaces and plazas date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Highlights include the Teatro Nacional and Plaza de la Catedral, with its nearby open-air market for Che berets and other tourist kitsch. For a brush with real Cubans and a sense of the island's emerging private economy, stroll over to Cuatro Caminos, a farmers' market and photographers' paradise full of colorful fruits, flowers and the ever whimsical fly-covered goat heads...
...while it may be hard for most of us to believe that happiness springs from a leg-searing, mind-scrambling, hours-long ascent into the heart of the Alps, a quick glance at Armstrong?s face on July 17th during his first break for the lead was pretty compelling evidence. Sidling up beside Ullrich, Armstrong grimaced as if in pain, then moved just a bit past his adversary, turned and fixed his gaze on the German?s reflective sunglasses. For a full beat, the two men stared at one another...
...loves talking history. His eyes dance behind his gold-rimmed glasses - one of the few pairs of glasses I saw on this trip - as he runs through the various sultanates that existed in the 16th and 17th centuries, the various colonial dealings of the 18th and 19th and the upheavals of the 20th. Pulling out a tattered pink folder, leaning forward, he describes his ongoing campaign to regain for local Malays the right to cultivate land held by the government. Back in the sultanate days, it was called tanah ulayat, communal land, and that's what he thinks it should...
Women’s college basketball has consistently increased in popularity throughout its history. The NCAA reported increases in attendance for the 17th consecutive season this past year, drawing over eight million spectators across all divisions...