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...oxen for guidance. Placed before the sacred beasts are seven golden trays bearing, respectively, rice, maize, sesame, beans, rice wine, water and grass. What the cows eat-and don't eat-during the ancient Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts the upcoming year's harvest. Munching on rice is good, a signal of a bountiful crop to come. Forgoing water for rice wine could presage a drought, along with a possible surge in public drunkenness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Cows Foretell | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...home, in Stormont, is closely associated with unionist—mainly Protestant—rule, and Sommer and a student said the move would be symbolic of the recent power-sharing alliance formed between Protestants and Catholics on May 8. “The new building would kind of signal a fresh start,” said Jennifer L. Giarratana, who is taking the class. “We conceptualized the site as kind of the birthplace of their new government.” Part of the group will travel to Belfast next month to present their findings to their...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Design Students Recast Belfast | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...time we got to our hotel there was no power to run the air-conditioning. We pressed on until we reached another lodge. This time there was power, but no cell-phone signal. A series of hiccups like this would have been par for the course in India a decade or so ago. But then came the outsourcing and high-tech booms and marketing campaigns like "Incredible India," and suddenly India's image had gone from pauper to looming global player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Without the Slogans | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...addition to Ely, two other quarterbacks will look to throw to Richards in the future. Matt Simpson hails from Springdale, Ark., while Oklahoma native Collier Winters rounds out the new crop of signal-callers...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Talented Group Makes Up Football Class of 2011 | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...oxen for guidance. Placed before the sacred beasts are seven golden trays bearing, respectively, rice, maize, sesame, beans, rice wine, water and grass. What the cows eat - and don't eat - during the ancient Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts the upcoming year's harvest. Munching on rice is good, a signal of a bountiful crop to come. Forgoing water for rice wine could presage a drought, along with a possible surge in public drunkenness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Cows Foretell | 5/22/2007 | See Source »

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