Word: wined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...
...transportation improved, thanks to the wheel, sailing ships and the domestication of donkeys, connections between far-flung villages and towns expanded dramatically. A flourishing international trade developed in copper ore, gold, ivory, grain, olive oil, wine and other wares. Explains anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "This was the beginning of a global economy...
...lives of Egyptians were closely tied to the Nile's annual flood cycle, and they were acutely aware of its influence on agriculture. They erected huge monolithic statues representing the god Min -- who symbolized fertility and the harvest -- and period tombs inevitably contain pottery, jars of wine and beer or platters of food. People were often buried with items related to their occupation: hunters with spearheads, political leaders with symbols of office...
...indulges in unseemly confessions; he is, in fact, inordinately harsh with himself. Sometimes he claims his material is beyond or beneath the power of his art. In Gros-Ilet, he describes a small, desolate island village and concludes, "This is not the grape-purple Aegean. / There is no wine here, no cheese, the almonds are green, / the sea grapes bitter, the language is that of slaves." At other times, he is worried that his devotion to the English language has severed him from the people of his childhood. The Light of the World portrays the visiting poet...
...cause cancer in animals as well. A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory has tested 80 such natural carcinogens. Its conclusion, reported in Science, is that natural chemicals may be significantly riskier than artificial ones. Among the foods that cause problems: wine, lettuce, apples, mangoes and whole-wheat toast...