Mayans excited, unsure on 'Apocalypto'
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Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
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Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" is, above all, a muscular and kinetic action movie, a drama of rescue and revenge with very little organic relation to its historical setting.
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Mel Gibson's Mayan action flick is about as true to human history as Lord of the Rings is -- only without the orcs. In Table of Malcontents.
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Researchers have witnessed a chimpanzee skewering a lemur-like creature for supper, but it's unclear whether the spectacle was a bit of luck or an indication that chimps have a more advanced ability to hunt than was thought.
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There's hype. There's hysteria. And there's history.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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You hear that a movie like "3:10 to Yuma" is being remade and the immediate reaction is, "Why?"
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Mel Gibson's bloody epic "Apocalypto" debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie, proving the filmmaker still can deliver a winner despite his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer.
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NEW YORK A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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Mexico&#39;s most famous Mayan ruins, at Chichen Itza, could become a victim of their own success if they are named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a global competition.
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"Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's first  film since his anti-Semitic tirade last summer, opened on  Friday as Hollywood wondered whether his career, like the Mayan  civilization the movie depicts, is doomed to collapse or poised  for resurrection.
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Astronomers say the show should be a good one. They note, however, that predicting meteor shower intensity is not always an exact science.
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The thriller âBreachâ manages to excite and unnerve despite our knowing the ending.
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"Apocalypto," Mel Gibson's first film since his anti-Semitic tirade last summer, led the North American box office with three-day ticket sales of $14.2 million in its first weekend, distributor Walt Disney Co. said on Sunday.
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A now-extinct tribe could have been the first settlers of the Americas, a university researcher told a science conference in Britain.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
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Travel: The Cadillacs and dance shows are fun, but real Havana - beyond the cliches - is more exciting