Word: anciently
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...actor, too, Welles aimed higher and older. He is most persuasive playing powerful men - like Brutus, become sere and weary trying to rationalize ambition as idealism - or ancient ones. His centuries-old Count Dracula has the sepulchral poignancy of a majestic senior citizen doomed to play the vampire yet determined to play it to the hilt. And Welles sounds hokiest, and farthest from his own prodigious, wandering youth, when imitating the thin, whiny timbre of small-town America's young men in such period pieces as "I'm a Fool," "Seventeen," "Ah, Wilderness!" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." To hear...
...these ancient events, Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz re-enacted them in their computers by taking into account such factors as gravity, impact shock, melting and vaporization. They also created models with a finer level of detail than earlier efforts. Finally, after a number of tries, they arrived at a scenario in which an object, the size of Mars but with only one-tenth the Earth's mass, striking at a highly oblique angle, ejected enough debris from itself and our planet's iron...
...most intriguing ways to interpret a child's needs is through feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of arranging a person's belongings to place her in harmony with her nature and surroundings. Nancilee Wydra, author of Feng Shui for Children's Spaces, explains that childhood is already such a "yang," or active, state that parents need to balance it with "yin" spaces and objects, such as small hiding places and low beds. (For more, visit nancileewydra.com...
...Amis, who are Jewish, drove an hour from Brookfield, Conn., for the Family Labyrinth Walk--held twice a year by the nondenominational New Canaan-based Labyrinth Project of Connecticut--to expose their kids to an ancient form of meditation and spirituality. In the Middle Ages, when Christians could not make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, they would walk a labyrinth to symbolize the journey. Today, adults and kids of all faiths are walking them to pray, meditate or simply relax...
Abraham (a.k.a. Ibrahim) is considered a forefather to both Jews and Muslims, but his children continue to fight over his grave. The ancient West Bank city of Hebron, where according to tradition the Biblical prophet is buried, has long been an epicenter of Israeli-Palestinian violence. In 1929, the massacre of 67 Jews destroyed its tiny historic Jewish community. But four decades, later Jewish settlers began moving into Hebron after its capture by Israel. In 1994, a lone Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at a local mosque. The Palestinian Authority took control of 80 percent of the city...