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...SHUs Perry calls the rocoto pepper, at left, a "modern variety" of the Capsicum pubescens identified by her team. The ancient chilies likely spiced up maize and root stew but were probably no hotter than cayenne peppers...
...said.Mirroring the standings at the H-Y-P meet two weeks earlier, Princeton took first with 1,496 points, Harvard was the runner-up squad with 1,408.5 points, and Yale secured third with 1,122 points. Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell rounded out the rest of the Ancient Eight.The Tigers had won five straight Ivy Championships when the Crimson stole the title in 2005. Last year, Princeton pulled off an upset of Harvard to return to the top of the League and cemented its stature this year.The Tigers led at the end of all three days...
...ruins of Chachabamba appear almost immediately, but the first real reward comes at the four-hour mark: Winay Wayna, the site of an ancient Incan settlement. Pause a while here to take in the terraces cut precariously into the mountainside, but remember that this is a mere dress rehearsal for the splendor that awaits...
...Your first sight of Machu Picchu comes after you've passed the final checkpoint-the Sun Gate and its near-vertical flight of 50 stone steps. Spread before you, in the distance, is Machu Picchu's labyrinth of temples, terraces and plazas. This is where the descent into the ancient city begins-and, with luck, you will have arrived shortly before the last tourist bus departs (at 5:30 p.m.). That means you could have this astonishing, spiritual haunt virtually to yourself, in conditions of near silence. Now how's that for a sense of arrival...
...anti-Pizzatola. When Harvard comes to town, the place gets downright raucous. A verbally vicious student section that seemingly sits right on the court and the unsettlingly loud blaring of the rowdy band situated under the far basket combine to create a home court advantage unparalleled in the Ancient Eight. Harvard knows all about that, having lost seven straight games in New Haven, and Drew Housman knows better than most--the then-freshman point guard was maliciously heckled every time he touched the ball en route to a 2-of-10 shooting night last year. Housman claims he?...