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...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 pale in comparison with today's hottest chilies...
William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor...
...Radcliffe in 2001, the institute looked quite different from the way it does today. It had stopped issuing undergraduate diplomas separately from Harvard more than three decades earlier. Its graduate school had shut down in 1963. And Radcliffe College ceased to exist as an independent entity in 1999. Linda K. Kerber, who was a fellow at the Institute in the spring of 2003 and teaches history at the University of Iowa, describes the challenge Faust faced upon arrival. “What Drew embraced was an institution which had served one set of purposes in a set of generations when...
...doctoral student are among this spring’s crop of fellows at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ellen Goodman ’63, Blogform Publishing CEO Michael Maier, former ABC political correspondent Linda Douglass, and University of California at Los Angeles doctoral student Elizabeth Stein are this semester’s fellows, the Center announced Monday. In addition, Mark Halperin ’87, the political director of ABC News, will serve as a non-resident joint fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...play's most rewarding role is not Eugene, as in the earlier plays of the trilogy, but his mother. Linda Lavin (of TV's Alice) gives a stunning performance. After a first act in which she seems to be a short-tempered drudge, this long-suffering mother gradually transmutes shrewishness and emotional blackmail into fidelity and a kind of noble forbearance. That transformation is the basic movement of the play. There is not a moment of sentiment or self-indulgence in Lavin's evocation, nor in the woman she is playing...