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Last week archaeologists reported in the journal Science that they had found traces of domesticated chili peppers on 6,000-year-old cooking utensils used in South and Central America, suggesting that New World cuisine was more sophisticated than once imagined. "It looks like people have liked spicy food for a very long time," says lead researcher Linda Perry of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Which of course raises the question: Just how spicy did they like it? In Scoville Heat Units-a measure of capsaicinoids, the chemicals that give food "heat"-the picante peppers of prehistoric Peru...
...said she relies on the stimulant to keep her going. “It is hard enough for me to get through the day with coffee. Essentially I need my coffee!” Shields said. The study was first published in the February edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology...
...journal article “Altars of Sacrifice” debunks the “the story of Confederate women’s unflinching loyalty” to the South in the Civil War. The story, she acknowledges, “fit neatly with an emergent twentieth-century feminist historiography.” But it fit poorly with reality. Faust found that women were more subversive than supportive in the Civil War South. In the process, she fastidiously picked apart a fish story that had so-called “feminist" scholars hooked...
Meanwhile, much of Faust’s scholarship has little to do with the fairer sex. She has written four full-length nonfiction books featuring dead white male protagonists. One of her more recent journal articles is about the “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying”—a topic so masculine it gives Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 a run for his money...
...figure than for her teaching abilities. “Is she a sphinx, or merely stupid?” Dench’s character inquires with characteristic acidity in one of the narrative voice-overs that take regular—and usually shocking—extracts from her journal entries. According to the movie’s tagline, “one woman’s mistake is another’s opportunity,” and Covett parlays Sheba’s guilt at being discovered making love to one of her students (catch the Biblical reference?) into what...