Word: ancestors
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...attitude of whites is more subtle than just open prejudice, say Tsosie and Fines. Sometimes, they say, a person will smile broadly and exclaim: "I have some Indian blood! Some very far ancestor of mine married an Indian princess." They call it the "Pocahontas' syndrome...
...museum also features the ancestor of all video games, "Spacewar! ," developed by MIT students in 1962, and the computer used in the capsule of the Apollo spacecraft...
Kimeu's specimen died on the marshy periphery of what is now the Nariokotome 1.6 million years ago. Not only is the find one of the oldest examples of its species, it is the most nearly complete skeleton of an early human ancestor that has ever been discovered...
Just as startling as the hominid's size is its anatomical similarity to modern man. Says Leakey: "Those who want to have a funny-looking thing as an ancestor 1½ million years ago will be disappointed. He's very human. That's what's so exciting. There were real people wandering about then." -By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Maryame Rollers/Nairobi
...most innovative design firm, the matter is partly a philosophical one. "We Japanese," he says, "are the most avaricious people. Infinite desires but infinite time and space." To Ekuan the traditional bento-bako - the stacked lunch box packed with its careful array of distinct morsels - is the true ancestor of that emblem of modern Japan, the box full of microchips. Both represent a culture of linear flow: the processing of information, sensuous or electronic, through standardized components that can modulate content rapidly and to an infinite degree by rearrangement. The bento-bako is the archetype of modular coordination; food culture...