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...pedigree. Depth is time, and the lower you go, the further back in history you travel. As ice formed in Greenland, year after cold year, bits of atmosphere were trapped in the layers. Drilling into the ice and fishing out samples--ice cores--that contain tiny bubbles of that ancient air can reveal the temperature, the concentration of greenhouse gases, even the ambient dust from the year that layer was formed. It's like tree rings but for climatic history. "In order to predict the future, we have to understand the past," says Minik Rosing, a geologist at the University...
...this should come as a surprise, but after one week of football for Ivy League squads, nothing is resolved. Teams that are supposed to win are winning, some middle-of-the-road squads are playing dress-up with contender costumes, and Columbia sucks. If anything, the scramble for the Ancient Eight crown sort of resembles a slightly more important race than the other one taking place right now.We have Harvard and Yale, the two top dogs, or candidates, if you will, still pretty much neck and neck and drawing all the attention. Harvard holds the lead in the polls, receiving...
...some time, racking up 10 wins for first-year coach Ray Leone. But the 1-0 loss to Penn dropped the Crimson below .500 in league play, and established the Quakers—who had already clinched the Ivy title—as the team to beat in the Ancient Eight. Tomorrow evening at 7 p.m., these two teams will resume Ivy play against each other as Harvard (3-2-2) travels to Penn (3-3-1, 0-0) to take on the defending conference champions. This time around, the Crimson hopes to send a message on a potential shifting...
...ancient Rome, plenty of public kissing went on in the shadow of the Coliseum, where lips smacked on hands, cheeks, rings and even feet, as simple greetings or formal signs of submission. The place is still a notable showcase of public affection, but one specific act of passion played out near the ancient monument has added fire to a very modern debate...
...year-old men who'd been holding hands were beaten by a gang shouting "Faggots Get Out of Italy." This and other attacks, including a fire in February set at the "Coming Out" gay club, have occurred in the neighborhood near the Coliseum. The road in front of the ancient monument, via San Giovanni in Laterano, has been dubbed Gay Street for the prevalence of gay clubs and bars situated there...