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There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses of Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on your cab ride from Logan Airport simply...
...Ministry of Culture is equally astonishing. Radiocarbon dating showed that the images aren't 20,000 years old, or even 27,000 (the age of what had been believed to be the earliest cave painting, at Cosquer cave near Marseilles), but 30,000 years or more -- making these the oldest cave paintings ever found. The dating is based on eight paint samples tested at three laboratories. If it holds up, says New York University anthropologist Randall White, an expert on prehistoric art, "it's a pretty big shock...
...charm of De Botton's books comes from his ability to regard the oldest profession in the world (the words "I love you") with a youthful sense of playfulness and discovery. Here he offers disquisitions on the "love right angle," "psychological hypochondria" and "jollyism" and likens the self, in quick succession, to a tumble dryer, a weather pattern and a TV set. The pages of the novel are sprinkled with diagrams, floor plans of the heart and even a picture of a can of Campbell's soup-which reflect, in their way, the games and strategies we practice in love...
Although some Crimson football fanatics believed first-year coach Tim Murphy could turn the groggy Harvard program around immediately, The team's 1994 season added further testimony to one of the oldest cliches around...
From the age of four, Bragg attended TrinitySchool, a three building private Episcopalinstitution on 91st Street in Manhattan. Foundedin 1709, it is the oldest in New York City andtoday charges high school students about $15,000 ayear in tuition...