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DEFINITION: (adjective) Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself. SYNONYMS: untalkative. USAGE: She was so reticent about her social life that even her roommates did not know she had a boyfriend.

De la Renta is a Dominican-born American fashion designer whose work has strongly influenced the fashion world since the 1970s. Originally trained as a painter in Madrid, de la Renta first entered the industry as a sketcher with some of Spain's top fashion houses. Later, he moved to NY to design the couture collection for Elizabeth Arden. In 1965, de la Renta began his signature ready-to-wear label. What political post was de la Renta offered? Why did he decline?

As a supporter of Mao Zedong, Deng was named to several important government posts. Mao launched the 1966 Cultural Revolution and, fearing Deng's popularity, forced him out of office. After Mao's death in 1976, Deng reemerged to serve as the de facto ruler of the People's Republic of China until the early 1990s. His reforms turned the world's most populous nation into an economic and political force. His reputation, both at home and in the West, was tarnished by his handling of what 1989 event?

Paleontologists from the University of New South Wales recently discovered fossils that they say belonged to killer kangaroos, "demon ducks," and marsupial lions that once inhabited Australia's Outback. Many of the fossils are more than 24 million years old. Researchers say many of the animals were similar to others elsewhere in the world, but had evolved uniquely in Australia.

Located on the Pariser Platz, the Brandenburg Gate was the grandest, and is the last surviving, of a series of city gates constituting the passages into Berlin at the end of the eighteenth century. Completed in 1791, the design of the gate was based on the Propylea, the gateway to the Acropolis in Athens. The gate has played varying roles in Germany's history, beginning with Napoleon's transplantation of its Quadriga to Paris in 1806. When was the gate closed, and when did it reopen?