Word: ancient
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...that parallels Malevich's return to peasant themes in the 1920s, Stenberg has deepened his color and turned to images of a remote village where he spends part of his time: bare roads, cottages, grave markers, religious symbols like the fish and the Cross, all emblems of an ancient Russia that continues to exist below ideology...
...Iowa Episcopalians, Pusey, now 82, says he always guided his actions with the same clear principles. He had written his Harvard thesis on the laws of ancient Athenian democracy, and believed deeply that "force or violence" should not be tolerated...
...Faculty room in University Hall--site of formal meetings, ancient oil paintings, the traditions of Harvard's oldest faculty--had an unusual set of overnight visitors 20 years...
...recent court order, some of the creek's water pours over a narrow spillway and meanders seven miles down its ancient route to Mono Lake. "There's probably 5 c.f.s. flowing in there," a water activist remarks in the technical shorthand (c.f.s. meaning cubic feet per second) that characterizes California water talk...
Like cartographers mapping the ancient world, scientists over the past three decades have been laboriously charting human DNA. Of the estimated 100,000-odd genes that populate the genome, just 4,550 have been identified. And only 1,500 of those have been roughly located on the various chromosomes. The message of the genes has been equally difficult to come by. Most genes consist of between 10,000 and 150,000 code letters, and only a few genes have been completely deciphered. Long segments of the genome, like the vast uncharted regions of early maps, remain terra incognita...