Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaking of ancient Rome, Super Bowl weekend may be the optimal moment to reflect on the true reason for that empire's fall--which, it could be argued, was not decadence, Christianity or post-orgy bulimia but rampant sports mania. At the height of the empire, the stadium was the centerpiece of every Roman town, dwarfing mere housing and temples. Loyalty to the chariot-racing leagues, with their colorful banners, eclipsed all political passions. When the barbarians attacked the gates of the Roman city of Hippo, no one much noticed because the groans of the dying soldiers on the wall...
When NASA claimed in 1995 that it had found evidence of ancient life in the Martian meteorite at left, there were plenty of skeptics. Now comes a paper in Science arguing that organic chemicals in the rock come mostly from contamination on Earth rather than bacteria on Mars. That doesn't prove Martian microbes didn't sleep here--but it weakens the case...
Monday night, however, all eyes will be on Feaster as she leaves the rest of the Ancient Eight in her wake. If she continues on her current pace, next Saturday versus Yale Feaster will become the only woman--and second person--in league history to grab 1,000 rebounds and score better than 2,000 points in a career...
Columbia, Dartmouth, and Brown--all with losing Ivy records--currently occupy the bottom three spots in the Ancient Eight...
...rutted dirt road leads to Vojnik, a farming village of 200 houses and 2,000 ethnic Albanians. Devoutly Muslim and speaking a complex, ancient language derived from Illyrian, the people here are the most doggedly independent of the approximately 2 million Albanians who inhabit Kosovo. Their houses, resembling modest forts, are hidden behind high walls of brick if the owners are well off or crude fences of woven sticks if they are not. Out on an isolated bluff, behind a particularly high brick wall, sits the compound of the village hoxha (religious leader), Abdyl Krasniqi...