Word: anciently
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...that into question. The asteroid impact and dinosaur extinction, say the authors, may not have been simultaneous, instead occurring 300,000 years apart. That's an eyeblink in geologic time, but it's a relevant eyeblink all the same - one that occurred at just the right moment in ancient history to send the extinction theory entirely awry. (See pictures of meteors striking the earth...
...were having a boy, everyone asked if we were going to circumcise him. All I knew was that circumcision is something the U.S. does and Europe doesn't and is therefore awesome. Our penises are clean and sleek and new like Frank Gehry skyscrapers, while theirs are crumbling, ancient edifices inhabited by fat old men in hats...
...antisnipping crusaders argue that the ancient Greeks rejected this violent tribal custom of the Jews and Muslims; hardly anyone practices it anymore besides those groups and Americans. They argue that the Jews created it as a way either to exclude women from their club or to ritualize the sacrifice of the firstborn male. They say it was brought to the U.S. in Victorian times only as a means of reducing masturbation by limiting sensation, in what has to be the biggest failed medical experiment in history...
...After returning eight of nine position starters from last year’s Ivy North championship team, and still carrying nine players who had won the Ancient Eight title in 2007, Harvard looked to be the odds-on favorite to get back to the ILCS and avenge last season’s sweep at the hands of Princeton...
...under the control of the women, they become the empowered protagonists of the story, actively and effectively inducing change. “It destructs the idea of traditional femininity and pares down the stoicism of men,” Morris says.“In ancient times and even now, the women are expected to shut up and sit in the kitchen,” Koven-Matasy says. “There’s this feeling [in the play] that the women have done this for so long that the pressure is building up and building up and that...