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Along with "Beast" and "Beneath the Sea" there was "Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers" - ineradicable images of wrecked saucers slicing through the Capitol Dome - and "20 Million Miles to Earth," where Rome's Coliseum stood in for the Coney Island roller coaster. But by the end of the decade, the genre Harryhausen helped define was dying at the box office. Pop cinema was getting sexier and a lot more violent. As Ray later said about his unsuccessful 1969 picture "Valley of the Gwangi," "A naked dinosaur just was not outrageous enough...
This is folly. America is no mere international citizen. It is the dominant power in the world, more dominant than any since Rome. Accordingly, America is in a position to reshape norms, alter expectations and create new realities. How? By unapologetic and implacable demonstrations of will...
Until Mussolini drained the mosquito-infested marshes south of Rome in the 1930s, malaria struck the city with such deadly regularity each summer that it was called the Roman fever. Last week two British scientists said they have found what may be the first genetic evidence that the killer disease was a blight on life in ancient Rome as well...
...evidence comes from the leg bone of a three-year-old child buried in a cemetery 70 miles north of Rome in the empire's waning days, circa A.D. 450. The remains were among some four dozen small skeletons--mostly of infants or stillbirths--excavated there in the early 1990s by University of Arizona archaeologist David Soren and colleagues. Because so many of the babies were preemies, and all seem to have been interred at about the same time, Soren suspected a malaria epidemic...
Though the technique may help unravel ancient medical riddles, Sallares isn't claiming it has explained why Rome fell. While malaria is debilitating and people would have done less work, he says, "they would have moved to the hilltops because mosquitoes don't like to climb mountains...