Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trove of fossils has been found at two sites in northern Spain's Atapuerca mountains. One, known as Gran Dolina, has yielded 800,000-year-old hominids that Spanish researchers believe are a new species, perhaps the most recent common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals. Named Homo antecessor (Latin for explorer or pioneer), they had a primitive jaw and prominent brow ridges but a projecting face, sunken cheekbones and tooth development similar to that of modern humans...
...houses in Florida and Manhattan (one invitee estimated the events' cost at $80,000 each). Privately, she contributed $70,000 to Newt Gingrich's political-action committee, GOPAC. A daughter, Deborah, worked for Senator Jesse Helms as a Foreign Relations Committee aide, specializing in the right-wing Latin American parties Helms favored in the 1980s. (She has since left the foundation board.) Mark, a board member, worked for Jerry Falwell before founding the DeMoss Group, a p.r. firm for evangelists like Billy Graham's son Franklin. Mark's father-in-law is Art Williams, the insurance magnate who bailed...
There are reasons, good or bad, to have a riot: to protest police brutality; to celebrate winning the World Series. Harvard students once rioted because the university started issuing diplomas in English instead of Latin...
...Jersey is undergoing a renaissance of sorts. The "of sorts" refers to the fact that we don't really have anything to bring back, or, in the Latin, "naissance." But now we've got Lauryn Hill singing about her hometown, South Orange, and The Sopranos celebrating our family values, and New Jersey movie director Kevin Smith causing problems for both the Roman Catholic Church and Disney. There are even I LOVE NJ T shirts for sale at Newark Airport. I know airports in every state have those...
...willingness to challenge convention; the latter also suggests the ability to create interesting new sounds. This Mexican group is one of the most praised Spanish-language rock bands around, but unfortunately its new double CD is perhaps more experimental than inventive. The first part features instrumentals that draw on Latin pop and European classical traditions; the second features vocals influenced by art-rock, bolero and other genres. More than a few songs on this provocative collection have the power to enchant, yet this band surely has better albums in its future...