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...museums across the country. Culture minister Atilla Koc last week ordered a nationwide inventory of museums. Several institutions are now being investigated for losses. The inquiry has already produced results; the manager of the depot at another Turkish museum in south-central Turkey was arrested Tuesday after 545 ancient coins were switched with fakes on his watch...
...more I'm obsessed with allegory. Everybody knows what the world looks like these days. They've seen it on TV. So as a writer you have to be more transcendental, more allegorical. Nearly everything has more to it than meets the eye. Even my life." Pausanias, that ancient Greek connoisseur of myth and meaning, would be pleased. So would Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo. They're both mentioned in Hav, well before the allegorical tunnel...
...AIDS debates from the '80s. I've met a lot of your fans, and many are in their 20s. I'm 35, and when I got to the sentence in Chapter 7 that began "A 1985 issue of People magazine?," I got pretty bored. Won't this seem like ancient history to readers...
...genital herpes would make HIV much less transmissible.In addition, Lieberman says, RNAi could, “in principle,” be used to repress HIV—a hypothesis her laboratory will soon begin to test in a macaque-monkey model.LIKE THEY DO ON THE DISCOVERY CHANNELIn ancient times, humans and chimpanzees might have known each other—in the biblical sense, that is.Last month, a team of geneticists at HMS and MIT compared the human genome to that of chimpanzees and two more distant primates and found that early humans and chimpanzees may have interbred to form...
...men’s soccer team brought home some hardware—the 2006 Ivy League Player of the Year trophy—but the rest of the Crimson did not. After struggling in 2005 with a 6-8-2 record and a 2-4-1 mark in the Ancient Eight, Harvard stayed home while Brown and Yale represented the league in the NCAA Tournament. From the Crimson’s first Ivy League game on, Harvard was mired in an eight-game winless streak that buried its hopes for postseason play. The run was capped by a disappointing loss...