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Among the 105 objects on display is a graceful three-legged wine cup from the Shang dynasty. Dating from about 1750 B.C., it is the earliest decorated bronze yet found, but its elegant shape and fine detail suggest that a sophisticated craftsmanship must have already existed for several centuries. During...
The question has daunted anthropologists ever since 1871, when Charles Darwin grappled with it in his The Descent of Man. How did the puny early ancestor of modern man defend himself against predators? More than 3½ million years ago, he stood only 120 cm to 140 cm (48 in...
Fourteen years and four or five version later, I've learned that Charlie Brown is no work of art, but it still manages to instruct and delight about as well as any show of its kind. One of the children who sat cross-legged in front of the first row...
But most of the interest in Kennedy is pathological, even among the town's sorely outnumbered Democrats. They speak of the man in the past tense, or if they speak to the future, it's about his chances of assassination. The consensus is that Chappaquiddick did him in: "People remembered...
The mullahs or Khomeini's son Seyyed Ahmed, about 35, handle all the calls; the Ayatullah does not deign to use this modern invention. That disdain could well stand as a symbol of the Ayatullah's whole rule, which aims at creating, to ward the end of the 20th century...