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...estimates that the lives of as many as 90 million Africans--most of them in and around the Sahara--could be "at risk" on account of global warming. Many of Africa's armed conflicts can be explained as tinderboxes of climate change lit by the spark of ancient rivalry. In Somalia, nearly two decades of anarchy have been exacerbated by eight years of drought. In Zimbabwe, relief agencies say President Robert Mugabe's disastrous rule is being overtaken by an even greater catastrophe, a three-month drought that wiped out the maize crop, fueling tensions between government-allied haves...
...Bulldogs, who sit at 6-8 in Ancient Eight play, get swept by Harvard, co-leader of the Ivy League’s Rolfe Division at 9-5, they will be eliminated from title contention. What happened here, if I had to wager, was a desperate Yale team trying to save its season by pleading for an extra day of rest for its starting pitchers. The Ivy office, which couldn’t afford to be seen as uncaring on matters of student-athlete safety, was bullied into complying and mandated the adjournment. Now, Stuper can hand the ball...
...alarm. The Sunni residents of Adhamiya are already prisoners in their own neighborhood. Leaving the neighborhood necessitates traveling through Shi'ite territory, so few take the risk. Meanwhile access to basic goods and services is slowly being choked off as the area comes under frequent mortar attack. With this ancient Sunni community slowly being strangled to death, its residents were unlikely to rejoice at the prospect of being surrounded, "for their protection," by a 15-foot-high barrier of gray concrete slabs...
...project was inspired by a 2005 podcast for the Museum of Modern Art in New York that promoted a more personal approach to canonized art. Hays felt this approach was particularly appropriate for a museum like the Sackler. “A lot of people, fairly so, think ancient art is pretty boring. Often the objects are exhibited mostly as a testament to their own survival,” she says. “Many objects [in the Sackler] don’t have wall text, so you don’t have any idea about them, and you should...
...radar," says JoBlo's Garabedian. He dispatched a couple of writers to check out the few minutes of footage that producers were showing at the conference in 2006. "The writers came back to our room, and they couldn't even talk." And just like that, the movie about the ancient Greek battle of Thermopylae with no stars and unusual stylized visuals became the talk of the convention. Six months later, it premiered at Butt-Numb-a-Thon, an Austin, Texas, film festival curated by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool News (AICN). Most mainstream media critics trounced...