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...Maia, Juno) and religious rituals (the period of purification known as februum). Julius and Augustus Caesar, gods of the Empire, got their own months, after which the Romans ran out of inspiration, or deities, and designated the last third of the year with numerals: the 7th (September), 8th (October), 9th (November) and 10th (December) months...
...mainstream polls have begun to show that Democrat Harold Ford Jr. is topping Republican Bob Corker in Tennessee's pivotal U.S. Senate race, but Ford may have a little problem on his hands in home-base Memphis: his younger brother Jake - who's running for big brother's old 9th Congressional district seat. Jake is running as an independent against the Democratic nominee with the blessing of the family patriarch and onetime local party boss, Harold Ford...
...9th out of 325: Cambridge’s rank among all Massachusetts school districts in overall per-pupil spending for the 2004 fiscal year, the most recent period for which comparative data is available. The city’s per-pupil spending totalled $16,116, compared to a state average...
...grant requests this year compared to last year, said Adelman. The UC funded approximately 300 of the student group grants by allocating $20,518.61 in cash awards, according to the grants package legislation. In other business, the social programming board—created by the UC on April 9th and given $200,000 by the College on April 11th—came closer to materializing last night with the announcement by UC Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07 of the timeline for elections and applications to the newly-named College Events Board. For those who wish...
...Stefansson can trace his ancestry back 1,100 years. That's almost unheard of in the U.S., but in his native Iceland, where genealogy is a national obsession, it hardly raises an eyebrow. The island nation is a genetic anomaly: settled by a few Norsemen and Celts in the 9th century A.D. and relatively free of later immigration, it is among the most genetically homogeneous countries on earth. And in the late 1990s, when scientists were racing to map the human genome, Stefansson realized that Iceland's genetic isolation and unrivaled genealogical records made it a potential gold mine...