Word: tara
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...title, incidentally, of his upcoming book to be published in June). He contends that these ancient matriarchs migrated to Europe from Africa via the Middle East or Asia as long as 50,000 years ago, and he has even assigned evocatively mythical names to each one: Ursula, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine, Xenia and Jasmine. He has also delineated rough population histories for the particular mutation patterns that define and date each of those ancestral groups...
...clan of Helena, the most common matrilineal ancestor of modern Europeans, is thought to have emerged from Ice Age refuges around the Pyrenees and migrated northward as the ice sheets began receding around 13,000 years ago. Velda's people similarly dispersed northward from the Iberian Peninsula, while Tara and Katrine's clans spread northward from present-day Italy. The descendants of Xenia are thought to have spread from an origin in the Caucasus not only westward into Europe, but also eastward and into the Americas. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, Jasmine's people brought agriculture with them from...
...aspects of ’00s pop culture. It’s great campy fun (Alan Cumming and Parker Posey obviously relish their villain roles) with a catchy soundtrack, underpinned by an admirable powerful-grrl ethic. Rachael Leigh Cook’s eyes sparkle with charisma as bandleader Josie, Tara Reid makes an agreeably ditsy Melody, and Reid’s boyfriend Carson Daly parodies the hand that feeds him. Is Josie a signal of the end of mindless pop music and culture? Probably not, but as supposedly disposable movie fluff it’s savvier than...
starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, Rosario Dawson...
...Crimson converted on its only powerplay opportunity just 10 seconds into the man-advantage when senior forward Tammy Shewchuk deflected a point shot from senior defenseman Tara Dunn to knot the game...