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...Tulane University, one of Burger and Salazar's collaborators, show that the ratio of females to males was a comparatively even 3 to 2 and that families and even infants lived and worked on-site, suggesting that at least some of the supposed virgins may have been busy giving birth. Finally, Salazar's painstaking analysis of recovered pottery, which changed in style over the generations, reveals that Machu Picchu was not reverently maintained for centuries, as Bingham believed, but abandoned after just 80 years, when political upheaval would have made it difficult to support the costly retreat...
...then, all conventions were out the window. The introduction of the birth control pill on May 9, 1960, had unleashed the sexual revolution. Pope John XXIII led an ambitious attempt to modernize the Roman Catholic Church when he convened Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962. The Beatles heralded not only a change in music but also the arrival of the youth movement when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964. By Aug. 15, 1969, the revolution was in full swing when thousands of young people gathered in upstate New York for the Woodstock festival...
...Maurice Micklewhite--Caine never bothered legally changing his name, so he was knighted in 2000 with the name he got at birth from his fishmonger father--believes there is a season for every purpose, and vice versa. Growing up Cockney, in the Rotherhithe section of London, taught him to observe life in the raw: to retain those images and that accent, which, along with the spectacles, became his trademark. Doing rep gave him lessons in the star's gift of getting noticed, and the actor's craft of hiding in plain sight. "In rep it's a different play each...
...point on Friday, the panelists reflected that if the league so desired, it could very easily become a hub for big-time athletics as it was at the birth of college sports. Becoming a league full of Stanfords could be as easy as setting up athletic scholarships and lowering admissions requirements to the point where Penn and Harvard could very well meet in the Elite Eight...
...background is what one would expect from someone of his birth. Hailing from Greenwich, Conn., he graduated from the boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall. He rows on the lightweight crew team and is concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. With his decidedly East Coast preppy style, Rogers certainly looks like Joe Harvard. Still, his manner lacks any entitled air about his sterling lineage...