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...would eventually pay a heavy price. The Spaniards discovered a veritable mountain of silver at Potosí, but it was only thanks to the potato - domesticated in Peru's uplands some 8,000 years earlier - that Spanish slave drivers could feed the army of conscripted miners they deployed to dig up the silver. As John Reader recounts in Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History, the flood of bullion proved more than the Old World could absorb. The unintended result: inflation that shredded Europe's social fabric, disrupted its monetary system and debased the precious metal itself. Blame...
...gets women labeled ice queens, bad mothers and bitches. In Cashmere, publisher Mia (Lucy Liu) is asked to sign off on a men's-magazine cover, for a story about predatory businesswomen, with a terrified man on a dinner plate and a pair of nail-polished hands about to dig in. "It's the Zeitgeist," a male editor tells her. "Female execs are taking over. Movie studios, Silicon Valley, maybe our next President--God help...
...important to be able to dig down and find your courage, which isn't always so easy. My mother would say, don't ever allow yourself to be intimidated. That was really ingrained in me, and I think that helped...
...Mary taught the squad how to come back from any early deficity, Purde how to put away a match emphatically.“We’re definitely inspired this year,” junior co-captain Chris Clayton said.HARVARD 6, PURDUE 1Learning its lesson from having to dig out of an early ditch on Friday, Harvard opened its match against the Boilermakers determined not to let it come down to the final set.That almost didn’t happen, though, as the crucial doubles point hung in balance after the No. 2 pair of co-captain Dan Nguyen...
...Vote Gopher The site's name and slogan - "We Dig, You Decide" - reflect its mission to break down the positions of each candidate on issues from Iraq to immigration. Created by Harvard student Will Ruben, the site is still largely managed by the school's undergrads and touts the fact that its writers have all taken a "non-partisan oath...