Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took only a single paragraph (four sentences, 91 words) to change the course of an ancient debate. "There is now no doubt," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in his grim report on AIDS last month, "that we need sex education in schools and that it must include information on heterosexual and homosexual relationships." With characteristic bluntness, Koop made it clear that he was talking about graphic instruction starting "at the lowest grade possible," which he later identified as Grade 3. Because of the "deadly health hazard," he said later, "we have to be as explicit as necessary...
...after the mid-week storm, the Crimson and the Elis decided to cancel the showdown. Yale, undefeated in Ancient Eight play, ended the year as Ivy League champion...
...Ancient Objects...
...return to Beijing's Academy of Fine Arts to get his Master's in Chinese art history. "It was a personal choice to leave the museum and go back to school. My work had stimulated an interest in Chinese art and I was tired of just dealing with ancient objects; I wanted to talk to people again," he says...
...Hung, who was also a section leader for Bronze Age China and several Chinese language courses, explains his approach to art: "When looking at an ancient painting, you have to imagine how the people back then regarded it. You have to recreate the atmosphere in which it was first seen...