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...known output--is his one and only mythological scene, of the moon goddess Diana. The favorite Diana myth among painters showed her bathing with her nymphs (good opening for a painter to show what he could do with pretty nudes) and spied upon by a Peeping Tom of a hunter, Actaeon; whereat the virgin moon goddess, her modesty offended, changed him into a stag. In Vermeer's version, circa 1653-54, there is no Actaeon, no river, no nakedness, and instead of plunging into the stream, Diana is merely having her foot washed in a basin by a nymph--Christian...
...Next up: ABC's "The Runner," in which the viewing audience turns group bounty hunter, hoping to stumble across a "Fugitive"-like contestant at, say, the local McDonald's. (This one will shatter Jeff Probst's existing record for most shameless product placement...
...emerging genetic picture tells a different story, one that identifies the earliest Europeans as scraggly, persistent foragers who had hunkered down during the glacial age. "This research changes the whole debate about Europe, shifts it back in time from the Neolithic era of farming to the Paleolithic era of hunter-gatherers," says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of mitochondrial DNA analysis. "There's now a much clearer sense that the genes we carry lived through the Ice Age, that our ancestors were hunting bison and reindeer with essentially the same genetic...
...amber, slate and flint for the farmers' pottery and grain. In coastal regions where oysters or other shellfish were plentiful, foragers felt no particular compulsion to take up the tasks of horticulture. Where farming did spread, he says, it was often through a process of gradual adoption by hunter-gatherers rather than continual migration of farmers. "Gene flow just doesn't correspond to the cultural patterns," he says...
...there is no reason why it will not. "Thirty or 40 years ago the story of Europe was basically one of watching the covered wagons roll west, full of pottery, wheat and barley, pushing aside the hunter-gatherers," says Clive Gamble, an archaeologist at the University of Southampton. Further back, archaeology was harnessed to political ends, subsumed in Nazi Germany to the dogma of Aryan man, and in most other places in Europe to a kind of manifest destiny...