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...image. They continue to insist that there are no transitional forms in the fossil record, no "missing links," though the Olduvai Gorge, along with other African sites, provides a procession of evolving hominids, mute but eloquent witnesses to our Darwinian past, including those children of the dawn, the australopithecines, the little "southern apes" who walked like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Dissent, Dogma and Darwin's Dog | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...jungle. Next day, they were abandoned without food and finally rescued. At the international airport two terrified American women were threatened with death by a group of 30 P.D.F. soldiers, who used them as a shield against U.S. paratroopers surrounding the terminal. The two were freed just before dawn after the American soldiers told the gunmen that Noriega had been killed and their cause was futile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Dragon's Teeth | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

Since the dawn of the Green movement, critics have argued that environmentalists exaggerate the dangers that humans pose to planet earth and understate the resilience of nature. Historically, the naysayers have had a key influence on policy: they weakened the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and Reagan officials James Watt and Anne Burford nearly destroyed the Environmental Protection Agency. But a worsening environment has put the naysayers on the defensive as they struggle to explain ever dirtier air, moribund forests and lakes, oil spills, desertification and the ozone holes over the poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Endangered Earth Update Now Wait Just a Minute | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...nothing to say," said Dawn A. Clifton '90 of Eliot House. "It was important to me only because my mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Taps 24 Radcliffe Seniors | 12/13/1989 | See Source »

Rebels abandoned the government television station and Villamor air base, which they had seized before dawn, and hundreds of mutinous marines marched out of Fort Bonifacio, their home garrison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coup Attempt Against Aquino Put Down | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

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