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...TECHNOLOGY makes chips and software for office equipment; printers; and scanning devices. "A simple, everyday tree; universal symbol of strength; less provocative than a Cypress or Sycamore...
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR makes chips for mobile phones; telecom equipment; Internet hardware. "Cypress has the most high-tech sound with 'cy.' A tree known for its longevity...
...hills are burning along highway 14. Columns of smoke dot the rolling horizon, and charred tree stumps smolder on the slopes. It may look like a vision of destruction, but Nguyen Van Quyen sees riches rising from the ashes. He's looking not at the felled trees, but at the rows of green bushes next to them. For every fire in Dak Lak province, there is more land to grow coffee and cotton. And Quyen has a hectare to plant. For a young man of 24, with a wife and new baby, it's a dream come true...
...fossil turned out to be a totally new prehuman species and last week re-ignited one of paleontology's greatest debates: Did we evolve in direct steps from a common apelike ancestor between 6 million and 4 million years ago? Or did the human family tree sprout several branches, some of which petered...
...past 20 years the Leakeys and others have dug up overwhelming evidence showing that between 2.5 million and 1 million years ago, the then lush woodlands and savannas of eastern Africa--where our family tree first took root--were the habitat of rival species, most of which were evolutionary dead ends. But what about before that? Paleontologists have generally agreed that there was just one hominid line, beginning with a small, upright-walking species known as Australopithecus afarensis, most famously represented by "Lucy," a remarkably complete (about 40%) skeleton found in Ethiopia...