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Haile-Selassie and his colleagues haven't collected enough bones yet to reconstruct with great precision what kadabba looked like. But they do know it was about the size of modern common chimpanzees, which when standing average about 4 ft. tall. That makes it roughly the same size as its close relative A. ramidus ramidus and about 20% taller than Lucy, the famous 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor discovered about 50 miles away in 1974 that is even further along the evolutionary track. The size of kadabba's brain and the relative proportions of its arms and legs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Giant Step For Mankind | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...find evidence on her body that creates an association with Condit, then he's got to explain that. Even that is not absolute proof, but it's suspicious. Part of forensic science is interpreting the evidence, and you can interpret in different ways. Not only do you have to reconstruct the events leading up to the crime, but after you do the analysis you've got to interpret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Trick a Polygraph | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

...most successful fundraising campaign in University history came to a close, the University announced that $4 million would be used to reconstruct the tower of Memorial Hall, which burned down in 1956. Though Pusey was reportedly heard saying, “Isn’t a pity it didn’t start at the bottom?” as the historic gothic tower was engulfed in flames, many saw the truncated tower as a psychic wound emblematic of a greater void within the University. Its restoration symbolized a new era of renewal, restoration and growth...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Final Word on Neil Rudenstine | 5/9/2001 | See Source »

...laud you for trying to reconstruct your country," said Masuda Bundu, a Congolese man in the audience. "But there are over two million people dead [in Congo], most of them children. That is a genocide, and a greater one than that in Rwanda. Since the Congo did not attack you, why do you have the right to do this...

Author: By Kristoffer A. Garin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crowd Presses Rwandan President on Congo | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

...with any self-respecting symbol, meaning is often packed into blackboard words to an unusually high degree. Lectures, primarily aural, are nonetheless calcified by these markings on the board; from their transcriptions students can often reconstruct entire verbal arguments. Blackboard scrawlings thus represent an extremely condensed language; no ordinary words, these can be extremely powerful in the context of memory...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Fragment 13 | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

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