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Peace Sign This symbol wasn't always so placating. Before its revival during the 1960s' antiwar movement, it was used as an anti-Christian symbol in the ancient Roman Empire
Although only two games were contested in the Ancient Eight this week, there was still movement on the leaderboard of The Crimson's Ivy Fantasy Basketball League. Kevin Reyes' Kevdog's Ballers, with contributions from three Yale Bulldogs, ascended from fifth place to third. Ted Kirby's Chip and Dale remained in first place, though Caleb Peiffer's Naeve's Knaves is not far behind. Keep checking thecrimson.com for weekly updates...
Visit the temples that grace the hills of Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, and it's not hard to see why the city seems like the perfect birthplace for the global-warming pact that was named for it. At the end of my trip last November, I toured the grounds of Nanzenji, a Buddhist complex that sprawls through the wooded slopes to the east of the city, and watched red and gold leaves fall upon a rock garden, where they were swept up by monks. Kyoto's temples show how humans can live in nature and actually...
...the lawyers of ancient Rome who came up with the modern definition of fatherhood: Mater semper certa est; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant (rough translation: The mother is obvious; the father is the one she was married to when the child was born). The Romans, however, didn't have access to genetic testing. Dylan Davis did. A few months after his divorce in 2000, Davis, 36, a software engineer in Denver, took a DNA test to confirm a nagging suspicion that he was not the biological father of his 6-year-old twins. The negative test results...
...sign of a healthy interaction between heart and head. Each time you exhale, your brain sends a signal down the vagus nerve to slow the cardiac muscle. With each inhale, the signal gets weaker and your heart revs up. Inhale, beat faster. Exhale, beat slower. It's an ancient rhythm that helps your heart last a lifetime. And it leads to lesson No. 1 in how to manage stress and avoid burnout...