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Last week, Bartlett Tree Co. carefully dug up the tree by hand, had its roots bound in burlap and moved it to a corner of the backyard. Neighbors are waiting to see if the tree will indeed survive...
During the course of moving the tree, the company took a sample to figure...
...everyone's surprise, the tree was found to be just 60 years old, and clearly was not brought over from Japan in the late 1800s...
...more important, the discovery may help paleontologists finally figure out when and why the Australopithecus clan sprouted a new branch on the hominid tree. According to a leading theory, the trigger was a global cooling trend that began about 2.7 million years ago and transformed much of Africa's moist woodlands into dryer, more open savannah. Was the development of tools and a more upright stance an evolutionary strategy to cope with the rigors of the new environment? Perhaps. But until now nobody had found a Homo fossil that dated back anywhere near 2.7 million years...
Theo R. Smith, thirtyish and spirited, is the sort of aspiring actor as easy to come by in Los Angeles as a palm tree or plastic surgeon. His resume, impressively diverse, boasts appearances in everything from The Winter's Tale to Mike and Maddy while also listing his "special skills," among them stage fighting, bartending and body surfing. Like many of his peers, Smith names Martin Scorsese as the director he would most enjoy working with. "I'm a dramatic actor," Smith explains, "but I would never turn down a good comedy role...