Word: ancient
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...Grimm's. Each concerns the creation of the world, and Virginia Hamilton gives every culture equal time and space. The Hurons speak of a woman who started things by falling from a torn place in the sky. The first man, say the Eskimos, hatched from a pea pod. The ancient Chinese venerated a giant who burst from a vast egg. Barry Moser's illuminations treat these legends with dignity and delicacy, and go on to show dozens of other prime movers, including a feathered serpent, an octopus and Pandora. As the paintings prove, each figure is not only a people...
...condition, the struggle for dominance will always continue. But the focus has shifted. In a world growing ever more complex and interdependent, it has become the control of information, expertise, and technology, rather than military power, that is the index of true power. As the Industrial Revolution ended the ancient, "eternal," institution of slavery, so too the information age may be the start of a world beyond war. Yet as industry found new ways to control labor, nations and individuals will continue to compete, but in the economic and technological spheres...
Andrew W. Mellon Professor on the Humanities William L. Moran, 64, a specialist on ancient Assyria, and Suzanne D. Moran, 61, administrator of the First Congregational Church in Cambridge, were charged with sexually assaulting their grandchildren from June 1985 to June 1987, said Thomas Samoluk, spokes-person for Middlesex County District Attorney Scott Harshbarger...
...candidate: cold, arrogant and weak. Funny, that's not what they were saying in Atlanta, when he was 17 points up, and where his absurdly praised convention speech led one giddy columnist to compare him with "the heroes of ancient Greece...
Professor of Mathematics Mark W. McConnell, who sings and plays the flute, offered a historical approach to the question. Math and music, he says, share a common history which dates back to ancient Greece. Pythagoras, famous for his theorum on triangles, is also considered to be a pioneer in music theory...