Word: alongism
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...that made her better at catching things on the ground and carrying things while walking on two legs. Her wrist, hand and shoulder bones show that she wasn't a knuckle walker and didn't spend much time hanging or swinging ape-style in trees. Rather, she moved along branches using a primitive method of palm-walking typical of extinct apes. "[Ardi is] a lovely Darwinian creature," says Penn State paleoanthropologist Alan Walker, who was not involved in the discovery. "It has features that are intermediate between the last common ancestor and australopithecines...
Like Harvard, Princeton has implemented salary freezes, halted capital projects, slowed faculty recruitment, and offered a voluntary retirement incentive program for hundreds of staff—initiatives that, along with other budget cutting measures, yielded an $11 million budget surplus last year that will be used to alleviate this year’s cost-cutting...
...Vistas at Saddle Rock - which had a sparkling swimming pool and sat just beyond the city limits. Other residents noticed nothing about him except for his shuttle van. "We have people of all walks here," says Mike Callender, a warehouse manager who lives in Building B. "And everyone gets along." The perfect cover, in effect, was no cover at all. "We've known for a long time that al-Qaeda's ideal recruit is someone who is legally in the U.S., has no criminal record," says Rosenau, "someone completely invisible to authorities...
...past shrines, and crowds of roaring plebeians toward Rome's great Temple of Jupiter. Toga-clad senators and the families of prominent patricians followed ahead of conquering ranks of legionaries. Bulls were sacrificed, laurel wreaths donned. Chariots bore the plundered loot of subjugated tribes, and captured barbarians were yanked along in chains. Some of the slaves had instructions to mutter "Memento mori" (Remember you are mortal) to their captors - an ironic note in a propaganda play designed to bind the Roman public to its leaders...
...Yogyakarta on the island of Java, killing more than 5,000 people. (A day before Padang was jolted, a South Pacific earthquake triggered a tsunami around the Samoan islands and Tonga, killing more than 100 people, but scientists are expressing reservations that the two sets of seismic activity along the so-called Ring of Fire were related...