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There he found what he was looking for: bone tools and stone artifacts, exposed along the sidewall of a deep trench which carries Mexico City's sewage to the lowlands. According to Dr. de Terra, the soil in which the bones and stones were found was formed under a chill and rainy climate; it is his conjecture that this rainy period coincided with the last great glacial period in North America...
Peking Man-Sinanthropus pekinensis-was the paleontological sensation of the 1920s. To Paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, Peking Man "ranks as the most important discovery in the whole history of human evolution." His first traces-two teeth-were found in 1921 in a "dragon-bone" cave* at Choukoutien, 40 miles southwest of Peking. Digging continued through 1941 under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. High point was the discovery of the first skull in 1929. Geological data indicated that Peking Man lived over 500,000 years ago, which would make him older than the Piltdown and Neanderthal Man and possibly...
Boner. In Salt Lake City, Utah University Student Donald Williams' pup followed him to school one day, was found by aghast professors asleep outside the geology department, blissfully nuzzling a rare, well-gnawed, prehistoric bone from the university's much-prized collection...
...current American Journal of Surgery, California's Dr. Clarence A. Split-hoff considers the causes & cures of backache. Chief causes: poor posture, extra fat, weak bone structure, accidents, high heels -which can throw the wearer's pelvis off balance...
Eight Stretchers. The work went on, all day and through another night, and through the morning of the third day. Then, late in the afternoon, the crowd stirred. Ambulances began arriving. Two doctors drove up and went into the tunnel. Crazy news spread from sooty, bone-tired rescue workers. Nine men had survived the blast, had bratticed themselves into a side tunnel. Eight of them were alive. Women jostled and called as the blanketed forms were carried out on stretchers. There had been few such miracles in the Southern coal country...