Word: ancients
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...world would be a better place, Wolf contends, if we celebrated female sexuality the way so many ancient cultures did. This line of thinking leads to the book's occasional dabblings in scholarship, and the results are often ludicrous. "Confucius, in his Book of Rites," she writes, "held that...it was a husband's duty to take care of his wife or concubine sexually as well as financially and emotionally." It seems to have eluded Wolf that ancient Chinese women might have aspired to something better than life as a concubine (or as the wife...
...offer 64. (Carmack scoffs at these numbers, saying there's "no chance" ION will finish a game of this size in time for the Christmas shopping season.) Daikatana also departs from Quake's Gothic aesthetic with a time-travel story line that allows four levels with four distinct looks: ancient Greece, medieval Europe, San Francisco circa 2030, and the far future...
...that a sheep had been cloned from the mammary cell of an adult ewe immediately raised the question of whether the same technique could be used to clone people. While the possibility of cloning opens up a new and exciting line of scientific study, it also seems to violate ancient taboos. To help sort out the issues--and to get the jump on a conservative Congress--President Clinton took two swift steps: he called for a moratorium on the use of federal funds for human-cloning research, and he asked his National Bioethics Advisory Commission to let him know within...
What he gave them specifically was the past and the present unfrightened by each other. He taught them Macbeth and Gatsby. The problem was how to persuade kids who have been told that they live on the fringes of society that the sturmings of ancient Scottish noblemen and of rich Long Islanders in pink summer shirts had something to offer their lives. The answer (Could he make them believe it?) was that they too had the hearts of kings and the longing for a green light at the end of a dock. And culture was a two-way street...
That policy kept America engaged with its allies and paid off handsomely. Not only is there no prospect of a war in Europe, but the ancient enemies--France and Germany at the center--have integrated their economies, torn down internal trade barriers, and face the world increasingly as a single unit. Their prosperity is enormous: Europe's gross domestic product last year, $8.6 trillion, overshadows America's $7.6 trillion...