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...Players: Derrick Brooks, Deion Sanders, Warrick Dunn, Peter Warrick, Marvin Jones, Sebastian Janikowski, Brad Johnson, Peter Boulware, Walter Jones, Samari Rolle, Andre Wadsworth, Tra Thomas...
...half a drachma for women, while their contemporary Persians levied a tax called jizya on all non-Muslims living in Muslim-ruled areas. In 11th-century Britain, rising property taxes propelled Lady Godiva to ride the streets nude, inspiring popular reform as well as aristocratic candy. Meanwhile, Peter the Great of Russia is reported to have taxed beards, souls, hats, boots, beehives, basements, chimneys, food, clothing, birth, marriage and burial...
...Kings claims, "from the [Euphrates] River ... to the Border of Egypt." A vocal minority of historians known as biblical minimalists claim that most of Kings was a myth concocted hundreds of years later to legitimize a later regime. ("He was making it up," says University of Copenhagen minimalist Niels Peter Lemche, of Kings' anonymous editor.) The minimalists argue that there is no good reason beyond piety to think that Jerusalem in 1000 B.C. was a major city or that David and Solomon were anything more than tribal leaders...
...intergalactic dust, which could contaminate the brightness measurements. But the new observations seem to have closed that loophole. The newly identified supernova went off about 11 billion years ago--about 50% further back in time than the previous record holder. "If the dust were there," says Lawrence Berkeley astrophysicist Peter Nugent, a member of Perlmutter's team and Riess's collaborator on the new research, "the supernova would have been much dimmer than...
...that was to follow. Unemployment was at 6.5% and rising (today it's at 4.3%), and the Dow was hovering around 3000. As Americans recovered from the excesses of the '80s, it seemed they were swearing off materialism and the stressful careers that supported it. Even mutual-fund guru Peter Lynch was downshifting. Lynch had just stepped down as manager of Fidelity's colossal Magellan Fund to spend more time with his wife and three daughters. "I adored my job," Lynch says, checking in from a vacation in the Grenadines. "But I couldn't get away from...