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...less than a year later, another team of paleontologists, led by Meave Leakey from the National Museums of Kenya and Alan Walker of Pennsylvania State University, has announced the best evidence so far that a previously unknown species of hominid strode upright at least 4 million years ago. Their find, reported in last week's Nature, consists of complete upper and lower jaws, teeth from several individuals, a piece of skull, arm bones and a leg bone. Taken together, the fossils push the emergence of two-legged walking, or bipedalism, 500,000 years earlier than any other data had indicated...
Scientists have been scouring the African continent for fossils from the earliest humans ever since 1871, when Charles Dar win first proposed that people and apes had a common ancestor. Kanapoi and Allia Bay, the sites where Leakey and Walker made their discoveries, lie about a day's drive north of Nairobi along the shores of Lake Turkana in the East African Rift Valley. An 1,800-mile-long gash in the surface of the earth, the Rift has yielded many important clues to early human history, because of its unique geology. Layers of sediment preserved animal specimens, while...
...volume of 301 million shares. The Standard & Poor's composite index of 500 stocks fell 0.68 to 559.71. And in London, gold closed up $0.15 at $384.65 an ounce.Photos:Nussbaum by Cynthia Johnson for TIMEGingrich by Terry Ashe for TIMEClinton by Diana Walker for TIMEJerry Garcia by Joe Traver/REUTERSMap by Paul J. Pugliese for TIME
...RESPONSE TO THE OPINION PIECE ON Clarence Thomas, I would note it's good that the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a former aide to Martin Luther King Jr., and other African Americans have finally recognized Thomas for what he is, but where were they during the confirmation hearings? Many prominent blacks were well aware that Thomas was unfit to follow in Thurgood Marshall's footsteps; very few had the temerity to come out and say it. If Justice Marshall could see who is occupying the seat on the Supreme Court that he held so honorably, he would be spinning...
...around gators quickly subdued it (ah, New York), assisted by a park ranger with a very big rubber band, which she promptly clamped over the gator's snout. City officials said it must have been a pet, since it was rather pale.Mladic photograph by Sava RadovanovicClinton photograph by Diana Walker for TIMEWu photograph by BBCGingrich photograph by Cynthia Johnson for TIMEMice photograph by John Sholtis Previous TIME Daily Campaign...