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Perhaps the best example of this is also the first written reference in Western literature to a single-horned "wild ass." In the 4th century B.C., a Greek doctor named Ctesias traveled through Persia (now Iran), in the service of the Persian king, where he heard many tales from Indian travelers about creatures back home. Later writing them down, he described "wild asses as large as horses" that had white bodies, red heads and dark blue eyes, and "a horn on the forehead, which is about a foot and a half in length." He also said that the horns were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Unicorn | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...network TV offers a fantasy of perfection, working-class TV offers a fantasy of authenticity. On NBC, an American Gladiator is a beefcake model in a unitard swinging his padded quarterstaff. (Read into "padded quarterstaff" whatever symbolism you like.) Cable's gladiators are paunchy guys with beards hauling ass to fell a tree or outrace a squall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV's Working Class Heroes | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...place," he says. When asked about Casino Drive, a horse from Japan who has emerged as a possible threat to Big Brown's Crown bid, Dutrow says he would tell his jockey "to find Yamamoto," referring to the Japanese admiral who conceived the Pearl Harbor attack, "and chew his ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Love for Big Brown | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...knocked me to the ground and spun me on my back, with his right arm hooked tightly around my neck. He is 24 years older than I am and quite a bit shorter, but it has been determined in less than 20 seconds that he can kick my ass. "That was very good," he says, his breathing only faintly increased as I get up from the mat and suck in air. "You moved it from a double-leg takedown to a single-leg." Yes, my first seven seconds were heroic. If wrestling 60-year-old playwrights were at all like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martial Arting With David Mamet | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...Guerette]’s kicking ass,” Lofgren says. “She’s phenomenal in every way, and I know she’s going to do really well this summer. I have a lot of confidence in her, she’s really inspirational...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rowers Set Sights on Summer Olympics | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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