Word: rubens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sandy and Son toystore, which was locatedon Cambridge Street, bid its customers farewell onFeb. 1. In a short period of time, the store lostan amount of inventory that was "enough to fill asecond store," says Kathy Roberts, a close friendof owner Sandy Ruben...
...says Ruben refused to carry toys thatpromoted violence in any way and often carriedbetter quality toys than those in other stores...
...says Ruben was generous with discounts forquantity buyers like her school, giving store giftcertificates worth 20 percent of each purchase...
...says it was not Ruben's generosity thatwas his downfall...
...very few glimpses of daily life," complains Arizona State University anthropologist George Cowgill. The best information scientists have to date comes from a series of mass graves discovered about a decade ago in the so-called Feathered Serpent Pyramid by Cowgill, his Arizona State colleague Saburo Sugiyama and Ruben Cabrera of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. Most of the 150 skeletons found there were buried with their hands and feet bound, suggesting that they had been sacrificed; most of them were also dressed as soldiers and armed with obsidian-tipped spears and other weapons. More sacrificial victims...