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...rnberg's warm, well-lighted courtroom, the lawyers tried to get the point across???these Nazis had killed 6,000,000 Jews. The spectators nodded. They had heard it before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Untellable Story | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

They may come across??as defiers of convention, pushing the edge as they slice through walls of water, but surfers are traditionalists by nature. For more than 40 years, as many as 9 out of 10 American wave riders have relied on one supplier of blank or unfinished boards: Gordon (Grubby) Clark. Last December when the old man slammed shut the doors of Clark Foam, in Laguna Niguel, Calif., he unleashed a tsunami. Some small businesses that had been shaping and finishing Clark's polyurethane (PU) boards simply wiped out; panic over supply swept the industry. But Clark's departure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing's New Wave | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

Leakey and her team compared the footprints with some left 80,000 years ago by Neanderthal man, generally accepted as the earliest human prints. Only about 15 cm (6 in.) long, but 11½ cm (4½ in.) across???much wider than either those of Neanderthal or modern man?the Laetolil markings indicate a manlike primate about 1.2 meters (4 ft.) tall that probably walked with what Leakey calls "a slow, rolling gait," like a chimpanzee's. Though there were many animal tracks nearby ?including some of knuckle-walking apes?Leakey is "75% certain" that the prints were those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laskey's Find | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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