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...attempting to make him to do anything with his life. While these characters are realistic archetypes, each one performs a single function and never deviates from that purpose. (As Philadelphia Phil, Rapaport spends almost all of his scant eight minutes of screen time chanting and jeering in a sports bar). Though the plot leaves a few loose ends, these work within the film’s internal logic. The Quantrell Bishop storyline is abandoned in order to focus on Paul’s meeting with Philadelphia Phil, but in the scope of the film, this makes sense. Paul never follows...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big Fan | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

While most students are familiar with flax in the context of breakfast cereals, the fibrous plant transcended its crunchy, delicious role to provide Harvard archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef with some surprisingly ground-breaking findings...

Author: By Henry A. Shull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fibers Help Date Rise of Culture | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...fibers were discovered in the Republic of Georgia by a team of archaeologists, including Bar-Yosef, a professor of prehistoric archaeology, and archaeologists from universities in Israel and the Republic of Georgia...

Author: By Henry A. Shull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fibers Help Date Rise of Culture | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

These fragments were later identified as flax fibers. This flax would have been gathered from the environment, most likely by women, according to Bar-Yosef. Flax was not domesticated until the Neolithic era thousands of years later, he added...

Author: By Henry A. Shull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fibers Help Date Rise of Culture | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

According to Bar-Yosef, the discovery was “accidental.” When team member Eliso V. Kvavadze of the Institute of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Georgia analyzed the pollen content in soil samples to determine the change in climate over time, she came upon what appeared to be fiber fragments...

Author: By Henry A. Shull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fibers Help Date Rise of Culture | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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