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...Whoa. This is a hominid," crowed Anthropologist Tim White when he spotted the first bone fragment, a portion of an elbow, lying on a layer of sand. Looking down, Expedition Leader Donald Johanson shouted, "There's part of a humerus right next to it!" That July 1986 find in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge marked the beginning of a startling discovery that was formally unveiled last week by White and Johanson. The team of ten U.S. and Tanzanian scientists unearthed 302 fossil bones and teeth that have yielded a more complete picture of modern humans' earliest direct ancestor, Homo habilis...
...Another bone of contention was the $7.9 million paid by Iran for U.S. weapons and left in Swiss accounts. Legislators contended that it is Government property, since it derives from the sale of federal assets. Secord insisted that it properly belonged to the "enterprise," meaning essentially Hakim and him. Under that interpretation, observed House Counsel Nields, "you could have gone off and bought an island in the Mediterranean." Yes, said Secord, "but I did not go to Bimini." The allusion to Gary Hart's troubles set off a gale of laughter. Secord eventually asserted that he intended to donate...
...Mill had read Plato by age ten. Forthwith Adler devoured Plato's works. With equal speed and assurance, he acquired his scorn for educational conventions, not to mention conventional educators. Then, as now, he found no use for grades: "What do they measure? The ability of some children to bone up for examinations." Given the power, he would abolish all marks in favor of general ratings (honors, pass, fair) arrived at by essay questions and oral examinations...
...entered Borges' Labyrinth, turning pages like so many processed bits of the shin bone of the late, great Jimmy Hoffa, then I came to the end of a chapter...
Parts of one woman's body were found in the freezer, and pieces of bone were located elsewhere in the kitchen. In the dungeon-like basement, furnished only with a portable toilet and two mattresses, three half-naked women clung to life. Two of them were chained to sewer pipes; the third was imprisoned in a shallow open pit covered with plywood weighted down by bags of dirt. Said Chief Inspector James Gallagher of the Philadelphia police department: "It was ghastly...