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...Much of Nebenzahl's commentary on the maps focuses on the complex networks of patronage and scholarly collaboration that led to their creation. Inevitably, the maps sometimes flatter the rulers for whom they were drawn. The 12th century Moroccan nobleman Al-Idrisi, for example, produced a world map for Roger II of Sicily that swelled his kingdom so that it was approximately half the size of the Iberian Peninsula. Yet Al-Idrisi also achieved a new level of accuracy by integrating the knowledge of Muslim mariners with that of Christian scholars, so that Asia was at last separated from Africa...
...Bili apes was Shelly Williams, an independent primatologist who visited the region at Ammann's invitation in the summers of 2002 and 2003. She says she documented separate groups of East and West African chimpanzee subspecies and what she calls the "mystery ape." The larger animal had a much flatter face and straight-across brow like gorillas and turned gray early in life. Females lacked chimps' genital swelling. Two or three would nest on the ground, with others low in nearby branches. They made a distinct vocalization like a howl and were louder when the full moon rose...
...even though she tried on many. “The pants were cut to accent long and narrow figures, but the one thing that most women have to feel good about their bodies is curves,” she says. “These pants were not cut to flatter that...
Some longer-term temps enjoy the best of both worlds: they get the same benefits as full-time employees without feeling the need to give face time or flatter the boss. Steve Israeli, 33, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been working since July 2002 through the New York City agency TemPositions, most recently as an IT manager for a state agency. Laid off by Lucent in 2002, he says he is making more than he was at his last full-time job and, after years of waiting, got his first chance to be a manager. "This is my career, absolutely," Israeli...
Sorry, pardner. In the opening minutes of the series, about a true-life gold rush town, a prospector says he's "f___ed up [his] life flatter 'n hammered s___," while the legendary Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) calls her associates "ignorant f___in' c__ts." Land o' Goshen! Has nobody in this burg heard of "consarnit" or "tarnation...