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...spirits. The skull that my mother recovered was in many pieces, but she and my father were able to piece it back together. It was the first really significant find at Olduvai; indeed, it was the only well-preserved fossil hominid to have been found outside South Africa, several thousand miles to the south. Unlike the South African sites, which lacked distinct geological layers, Olduvai offered a chance to get some real ages for the fossils. Using a method known as potassium-argon dating, Zinjanthropus was determined to be 1.75 million years old. At the time, this was staggering...
...modeled her brand-new wardrobe for friends and family. But even as she reacquainted herself with conventional teenage life, investigators were worried about the battery of questions they would soon have to ask, broaching such grownup topics as polygamy, sexual assault and religious fanaticism. On Friday evening several thousand people flocked to Liberty Park for a citywide celebration of Elizabeth's return. She did not attend but sent along an autographed poster with the message "I'm the luckiest girl in the world!" It was a moment for laughter and celebration. There would be a lifetime for seeking answers. --Reported...
...democratic process was tested too. History's clock stopped on Nov. 7, 2000, when George W. Bush and Al Gore failed to conclude the presidential election in a timely fashion, with the contested votes of a few thousand Floridians standing between the two. On Dec. 12, 2000, Bush, loser of the popular vote, won the presidency on electoral votes by fiat of the Supreme Court in the most controversial election in the history of the union...
Fourteen hours after President Bush sounded the drums of war on Iraq, more than a thousand Harvard students countered by beating bongos for peace in a massive march down Mass. Ave. to downtown Boston yesterday...
...component of advanced nuclear weapons--near Natanz. But diplomatic sources tell TIME the plant is much further along than previously revealed. The sources say work on the plant is "extremely advanced" and involves "hundreds" of gas centrifuges ready to produce enriched uranium and "the parts for a thousand others ready to be assembled...