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...derived from gymnastics, including flips, spins and flares, breakdancing is a way to get your full-body workout and be the life of the party. While it has taken the group several years to compile their repertoire, you can learn the basics in a matter of minutes. In this fifteen-step guide to breakdancing, the boys go over the basic “six step” footwork and the flashy “windmill” move for the more adventurous...
...idea that much of this is fantasy is pretty persuasive too. There are no Incan records--the Incas had no written language--but the Spaniards, who conquered so much of South America, kept plenty. Fifteen years ago, John Howland Rowe, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, was studying the archives left by the Spaniards at Cuzco and came across a 16th century lawsuit filed by descendants of Pachacuti seeking the return of royal family lands, including a retreat called Picchu. Over the years, other researchers have dug deeper into the mystery, none deeper than Burger, a onetime student...
Workshop organizers described another set of challenges posed by countries such as China and India, which Ruggie said are “on an African trajectory, just fifteen years behind...
...Fifteen years ago, I WOULD have put limits on what we would ever be able to do to alter our genes. Now I believe there are no limits--no technical limits anyway. Within the next half-century, and probably much sooner, we will have a complete understanding of what every gene does. We will also be able to repair individual genomes by replacing defective genes. This so-called germ-line genetic engineering is currently viewed with horror, but that will change as people realize that fixing the faulty gene that causes Huntington's disease in all future generations, for example...
Venu saunters in fifteen minutes later, sporting a tan leather jacket and a Euro-chic haircut. As it turns out, the two have met before. After all, as Venu asks rhetorically, “Can a date really be blind when you’re gay at Harvard?” They greet each other with affected relief, and a waitress guides the pair to an “intimate” table for two, under the gaze of a camera and reporters...