Word: hunting
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...thinking that led to man-the-hunter was largely inferential: if you bring the women along on the hunt, the children will have to come too, and all that squalling and chattering would surely scare off the game. This inference was based on a particular style of hunting, familiar from Hemingway novels and common to the New England woods in October, in which a small band of men trek off into the wild and patiently stalk their prey, a deer or two at a time. But there is another way to get the job done known as "communal hunting...
...there was only indirect evidence of communal hunting in Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same...
...middle of the night, a set of headlights in the rearview mirror can become, in my head, a psychotic policeman with an unstoppable, irrational scheme to plant drugs or a gun in my car and arrest me for resisting arrest: all for the sadistic kick of an easy hunt. Or maybe he'll even give me a speeding ticket. Certainly I don't really believe all this paranoia, but this imaginary psychopath suggests an authority amidst the chaos of my midnight highway that is, I might even say, comforting...
...Downtown Crossing or Park St. Local Italian established in 1876. Huge inexpensive pasta plates. Hard to find, but worth the hunt...
Maier, who is on leave this year, was awarded with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The award has also been given to two other Harvard faculty members in previous years, Richard M. Hunt, senior lecturer in social studies, and Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffman...