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China has long prided itself on having come up with many of the world's most important inventions. Now the country that gave us gunpowder, paper money and the noodle can claim responsibility for another of human civilization's highest achievements: we have the Chinese, or at least their distant ancestors, to thank for cocktails. According to a report released last week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., residents of the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Henan province were raising toasts with fruit wines and rice spirits in 7000 B.C.?usurping Iran's first...
...hundreds of years while they see merely a few “ship” days. Having no family or friends on Earth, the crew is its own unit bound to the inescapable laws of physics and the loneliness of the “long passage” (their distant voyage...
...stocked fishing hole. Rice is sitting at the other end, visibly uncomfortable. She may love talking sports with the President, but she's no fan of the water. "She can swim, but she doesn't like it," says a friend. "She and the outdoors are only on distant acquaintance...
...with the Washington Wizards, argues that Jordan's on-court performance in D.C. won't taint his legacy. (At 40, he averaged 20 points a game.) But in the locker room and executive suite, explains Leahy, the game's greatest player tossed an airball. Jordan ran the Wizards from distant Chicago and hired cronies. And once, after Jerry Stackhouse hit a buzzer shot to give the Wizards a win, Jordan credited himself for drawing the defense's attention. Wanna be like Mike? Not when it comes to management. --By Sean Gregory
...claim their Quad House t-shirts. Accordingly, we’re glad to see that plans currently include a minimum of two to three Houses built across the river—a replacement for the Quad Houses—with a potential five more to be built in the distant future...