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...lined with grinning portraits of him arm-in-arm with top law-enforcement brass from the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Europol and Interpol. Though counterfeit euros pose no threat to Bulgaria's economy (the country is not joining the E.U. until 2007 at the earliest and use of the currency is probably a decade away), Borissov, a former bodyguard to the Prime Minster, Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, wants to be seen as a loyal soldier to the West in the war on fakes. Next June, the country is hosting a Europe-wide conference on forging currency...
...ancient Egyptians were relative newcomers to the wine industry, says McGovern, whose new book, Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture (Princeton University Press; 365 pages), traces the long prehistory of our most celebrated beverage. The earliest pharaohs imported wine from the southern Levant, and before the occupants of that region became winemakers, about 6,000 years ago, they no doubt imported wine from their neighbors. In such stepwise fashion, McGovern suggests, viniculture (a term he uses to encompass both the growing and the processing of grapes for wine) spread from its point of origin in the uplands...
...presence as the cigarette burns on my coat. Upon our arrival in September our first year, we are greeted by a list the Freshman Dean’s Office has left of all the people who have lived in our room. (Actually, this was the source of my earliest disappointment at Harvard: reading my list I thought, briefly, that Theodore Dreiser—Theodore Dreiser!—had lived in my room; upon closer reading I realized the Weld resident was Theodore Dreier—without the S. I ought to have known, of course, that the real Theodore...
...million years Age of an ankle bone belonging to a tree-climbing anthropoid discovered in Burma. French scientists announced last week that this suggests man's earliest ancestors could be from Asia rather than Africa...
Ranked No. 5 nationally, Providence will provide the earliest test on the young season for the Crimson, with the first matchup coming...