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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thought we started very well—we were pretty sharp,” Amaker said. “I just thought that the end of the first half, that was the dagger...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoyas Too Much For Harvard To Handle | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...thought lost. In 1989, they uncovered the ruins of the legendary Egyptian city of Berenike Panchrysos, a desert town once allegedly paved with gold. The first breakthrough in the hunt for Cambyses' army came in 1996, when the Castiglioni brothers ran across a cache of Persian arrow tips and dagger blades beneath a rock outcrop not far from the oasis of Siwa - near the modern-day Egyptian border with Libya and the site of the sacred Amon temple, whose oracle was worshipped by Greeks and Egyptians alike. Cambyses' army had set out from the city of Thebes to reach Siwa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vanished Army: Solving an Ancient Egyptian Mystery | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

Maybe there is some merit to Albright’s belief in the power of jewelry. In her memoir, she recalls that at her meeting with Saddam Hussein and Iraqi officials, she wore a serpent pin with a dagger through it. Zing...

Author: By Jyotika Banga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pins and Policy | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...abandoned such competition, opting instead to pair-bond with females and stay together in order to rear their offspring (though not necessarily monogamously or for life). The evidence of this harmonious existence comes from, of all things, Ardipithecus' teeth: its canine teeth are relatively stubby compared with the sharp, dagger-like upper fangs that male chimps and gorillas use to do battle. "The male canine tooth," says Lovejoy, "is no longer projecting or sharp. It's no longer weaponry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ardi Is a New Piece for the Evolution Puzzle | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...conquistador, seized from the Maya the volcanic realm that became Guatemala. But his bloodlust still haunts the country, which today has one of the highest homicide rates in the western hemisphere. Guatemala's 36-year-long civil war, which ended in 1996, killed 200,000 people. Its cloak-and-dagger murders have made locals so paranoid that "even the drunks are discreet," as one 19th century visitor wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Guatemala, Chasing Away the Ghost of Alvarado | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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