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...infinitas posibilidades de los de adentro. En otras palabras, ella trabaja duro y sue?a en grande. En el 2001 se convirti? en la primera actriz en tener, en la misma semana, una pel?cula (The Wedding Planner) y un disco (J. Lo) en el tope de las listas de venta. Hoy en d?a posee l?neas de ropa (JLO by Jennifer L?pez y Sweetface) y fragancias (Glow, Still), lo que le report? un total de m?s de $300 millones en ganancias en el 2004. Seg?n la revista Fortune, esto la convirti? en la decimonovena persona m?s rica menor de 40 a?os...
...sites were also built on a fairly modest scale: the Great Pyramid at La Venta, a site that arose around 800 B.C., is just 100 ft. high, about half the size of the tallest Mayan pyramid at Chichen Itza. Still, each Olmec site was laid out according to a preconceived plan, a fact that reflects both the people's religious beliefs and a fairly sophisticated knowledge of engineering. All the mounds at La Venta, for example, are oriented precisely 8û west of north...
...entity. "There just isn't any evidence for this," he insists. "There were probably a number of different populations, forming groups that rose and fell over time and shifted alliances. I don't think there was any political integration." No one knows whether the major cities--San Lorenzo, La Venta and Tres Zapotes--traded with one another, or even co-existed...
...Mexican art is sacred art. There are rare moments of what one might call realism. One is the remarkable Olmec urn in the form of a hunchback, probably from La Venta; but its immense vitality suggests that in Olmec cosmology, cripples and dwarfs were invested with numinous power, along with jaguars and eagles. Another is the 7th century stucco head from the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque, which is clearly a portrait, perhaps of the ruler Pacal II. Yet even in this effigy of an individual, the great bladelike nose and the forward sweep of the headdress like...
Died. "Messiah" Krishna Venta (real name: Francis Heindswatzer Pencovic), 47, cultist, leader of the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, Love) Fountain of the World; in a dynamite blast set off by two ex-members of the Fountain, who died taking eight others with them; near Chatsworth, Calif. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...