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Unfortunately, the few hundred afarensis bone fragments scientists have dug up over the past 20 years have been too few and too fragmentary to advance the argument very far in either direction. That is why Lucy's Grandson is a breakthrough. Says Walker: "We've had parts of afarensis skulls from different individuals, but now we know what a single skull looks like, and we have the proportions correct...
Certainly Yeltsin has had health problems in the past. When Gorbachev had him ousted as Moscow party boss in 1987, he suffered something resembling a nervous breakdown. In 1990, when his aircraft made a bone-rattling landing in Spain, he sustained a serious back injury, for which he still takes medication. A host of other ailments, ranging from bad colds to kidney disease, are regularly said to plague him. But the most widely whispered diagnosis is cirrhosis of the liver, a condition stemming from chronic abuse of alcohol...
...those bone fragments pictured in your article are a sample of what scientists call "proof" of evolution, it's a wonder this field of study even exists. The story of evolution is just that -- a fairy tale written by Homo idiotus and believed by Homo credulous...
...nations have since announced still more steps to curb the tiger-part trade, but they have yet to satisfy their critics. Chinese authorities say that they have assigned 40,000 people to enforce laws aimed at the black market and that more than 1,000 lbs. of confiscated tiger bone have been burned. Conservationists don't trust either claim. China has considered raising tigers in captivity to supply the traditional-medicine market, but that may only legitimize a nasty business. Poachers could pass off the tigers they kill as "captive bred...
...made a single arrest, and response to a government call for people to come forward and register tiger parts and rhino horn has been embarrassingly small. Allan Thornton of the EIA says past efforts to enforce the law consisted of uniformed police asking pharmacies whether they had tiger bone -- something like having cops ask drug dealers whether they are carrying heroin...