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...Toluca Lake, Calif. The self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...
...Xiaocong, a cartography expert at Peking University. "It's simply not logical," says Li, "to use a map drawn in [Emperor] Qianlong's time to prove the existence of a map that might have been drawn during the reign of Yongle"?some three centuries earlier, in the Ming era. Li adds: "We don't even know if that Ming map existed...
...about the map, especially its use of language, has led professional historians to view it with suspicion. "If you look at the text, there are really some things that are a bit strange," says Nicolas Standaert, an expert on the Ming era at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Standaert points to passages circled in red?which the map's legend says are copied from the 1418 map?that contain words or terms not used at that time. Among them is the map's word for the Christian God and its description of what is now the South China...
...about money he had given her, the inquiry continued even though Cisneros pleaded guilty in 1999 to the misdemeanor of making false statements to the bureau. It finally ended with the release of David Barrett's 474-page report, in which the prosecutor says a cover-up by Clinton-era officials prevented him from bringing new charges...
...we’re all finally maturing; the novelty of boys is wearing off and the need for better friends building up. But I’m not certain we can completely attribute the growth of girl groups to getting older. It’s not just age, but era as well. We now have dough in the bank (thanks, affirmative action), no longer have upwards of five children (shout out to Margaret Sanger) and have single older women as role models (Carrie, you’re a star...