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...dawn of the first millennium, a man could walk south from Ethiopia and get all the way to China. Six hundred years later, the Mediterranean was literally the center of the world, and the island now called Sri Lanka occupied the eastern half of the Red Sea. In the 1660s, the Mekong River, along with the Yangtze and the Salween, dangled like scraggly chin hairs from a Tibetan lake roughly the size of Taiwan. Or so it appeared on the most accurate European map from each of these eras...
Traveling with fewer swimmers than usual did not prevent the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team from a strong finish in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Open Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend. The Crimson, propelled by strong performances on the final day of competition, placed third in the event behind Rider and Marist...
...next for the Crimson are the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) Championships, which will be held at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool on March 3-5. After its finish at the ECACs, the team is optimistic about its chances...
...your restaurant [Teany, in New York City] doing? It's actually worked out really well. What we've learned is that whenever I suggest something, it ends up being disastrous. Like this fantastic Middle Eastern plate that I designed--one of our first customers, Susan Sarandon, loved it. I think she almost licked her plate. But it was so expensive to produce, we basically lost $2 every time we sold one. The only labor I'm qualified for at the restaurant is busing tables...
...NUCLEAR SECRETS AND A complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb. That smuggling operation took place under the nose of the CIA and other global-intelligence agencies. But what country did President Bush go after for hiding weapons of mass destruction? Iraq, a Middle Eastern country that didn't have the Bomb. Given that track record, there is no reason to feel confident that Khan is safely under house arrest in Islamabad...