Word: afar
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That's exactly the case with the new species, which now bears the scientific name Australopithecus ramidus (ramid means root in the local Afar language). Like Lucy and her clan, known as Australopithecus afarensis, ramidus had teeth with some apelike and some human characteristics. But at least one specimen -- a baby molar still attached to a piece of an immature ramidus jaw -- resembles a chimpanzee tooth more than a molar from any known hominid. "It's obvious that it belongs to an ancestor of afarensis," says Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, a co-author of the Nature...
...From afar, the Demon cries...
Those who knew her or watched her from afar groped for the words that could explain their feeling of loss. A friend of hers said, with a soft, sad voice, that what we're losing is what we long for: the old idea of being cultivated. "She had this complex, colorful mind, she loved a turn of phrase. She didn't grow up in front of the TV set, but reading the classics and thinking about them and having thoughts about history. Oh," he said, "we're losing her kind...
...first observed the phenomenon over the summer as I walked through the streets of Paris. I was strolling past a cafe, when I heard the words, "C'est cool," being muttered from afar. I stopped, turned my head and followed the mutterings until I found their source. My eyes came to rest on a group of teenagers, none of them more than 16 years old. They were smoking cigarettes and talking...
Capriati was a phenom at age eight, on the WITAtour by the age of 13. Yes she can point totournaments won and past grand slam successes, butshe now points from afar--the strain ofcompetition demanded of her by her parents hasrobbed her of a life she is trying to put back inorder...