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...toward a nuclear power station. Soon two F-16 fighter jets arrived on the scene, and Bryant heard a "tremendous, thunderous noise." A little later, choppers were spotted near the Oconee nuclear plant near Clemson, 90 miles away. Then, shortly after midnight, several more were reported flying over the Savannah River Site, a Department of Energy facility that occupies more than 360 sq. mi. along the border of South Carolina and Georgia. Nuclear waste is disposed of there, and weapons are restocked with tritium. Authorities closed down a highway that runs through the base, until the FBI gave...
...with several theories. Anthropologist Henry McHenry, of the University of California, Davis, for example, champions the idea that climate variation was part of the picture after all. When Africa dried out, say McHenry and his colleague Peter Rodman, the change left patches of forest widely spaced between open savannah. The first hominids lived mostly in these forest refuges but couldn't find enough food in any one place. Learning to walk on two legs helped them travel long distances over ground to the next woodsy patch, and thus to more food...
...member of the world's most famous fossil-hunting family, suspects the change in climate rewarded bipedalism for a different reason. Yes, the dryer climate made for more grassland, but our early ancestors, she argues, spent much of their time not in dense forest or on the savannah but in an environment with some trees, dense shrubbery and a bit of grass. "And if you're moving into more open country with grasslands and bushes and things like this, and eating a lot of fruits and berries coming off low bushes, there is a hell of an advantage...
...lives (and those of their children) are anything but fodder for tabloid speculation and ridicule. You made fun of the headlines the breakup has produced in other publications, but you had no right to assume superiority when your own reporting was so vapid, meanspirited and soulless. ROBERT E. RYDER Savannah...
...Mariah; 2) signing Michael Jackson to Sony Records for an obscene amount of money (since which time, due to various factors, Jackson's sales have declined steadily); 3) being mentioned in the first line of the wonderfully tacky disco hit "Cherchez la Femme" (1976) by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band...