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...What lay ahead was the unenviable task of building a program from scratch. But with an incredible work ethic and an unmatched interest for each individual athlete, Hamilton began to lure some solid talent to Miami...
...What lay ahead was the unenviable task of building a program from scratch. But with an incredible work ethic and an unmatched interest for each individual athlete, Hamilton began to lure some solid talent to Miami...
...Nursing a baby may look pretty effortless, but it can burn up 500 calories a day--the equivalent of running about five miles. Where was the help coming from? Was the female completely dependent on her male significant other, as the prevailing theory has always implied? An alternative possibility lay buried in the mystery of menopause. Nature is no friend of the infertile, and in most primates, the end of childbearing coincides with the end of life, so it was always hard to see why human females get to live for years, even decades, after their ovaries go into retirement...
...itself, the jury's decision declared a happy change in the social organism. One white juror made the argument that King required the death sentence because the community had to show that the murder was "something we cannot accept." If there was encouragement to be taken from Jasper, it lay in her use of the word...
Part of the power of Ingres's art lay in his ability to invest figures with a dignity and a power that verged on the sacral. He was one of the last artists to whom the rhetoric of grandeur seemed not only possible but desirable. Of course it had to be for a myth painter doing an Apotheosis of Homer. But Ingres brought it into portraiture, most notoriously with his over-the-top portrait of Napoleon (1806) in his imperial coronation robes, as frontal and opulent as a Byzantine god. So weird was this attempt at deification that even David...