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Students at five Jefferson County high schools will have the opportunity to win a $5,000 for writing on extreme weather and inequality. The contest is being held by Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Ancient ...

For more than a century written language was seen by anthropologists and other social scientists as a definitional feature of societal complexity or “advancement” (a term that is tinged with ...