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DELARRAIN, on the other hand, was forced to scrape together a couple of hundred thousand dollars for a rent-an-attorney to protect his fiscal turf, not to mention his reputation. When the enemy slinged accusations that he had married a woman old enough to be his dead ancestor, de Larrain was defensive. He really had warm feelings for the old gal, he protested. And even if he didn't he certainly had put in the time...
...family trees were charted indefinitely backward, they would eventually converge on a small group of ancients who were ancestors of us all. Now biologists suggest in a report to Nature that a single female living between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago in Africa was an ancestor of everyone on the earth today. Inevitably -- and to the probable delight of creationists -- many scientists are calling...
Biologists claim a prehistoric woman was an ancestor of everyone alive today. -- Genetic "fingerprinting" may help solve crimes...
...anxious travelers, now moved in sedate jerks toward apotheosis. The Manets were in place. From the bay of Courbets, dense and dark, impacted with reality, one could look across the nave to their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire, The Romans of the Decadence, ancestor of all Cecil B. DeMille orgies. In the distance, on a raised loft that stood where the trains once came in and out, was a grimy white gleam: the spectral plaster of Rodin's Gates of Hell. In a side gallery, a visitor furtively ran his finger over the marble...
Daniloff, similarly, said that he would someday like to return to Moscow to lay flowers once again on the grave of his ancestor, about whom he is planning a book. But Daniloff insisted that, unlike Zakharov, he had come through the experience with his honor unsmudged. Yet was not the complex arrangement merely a fig leaf disguising the swap of Daniloff for a spy? "In my case," Daniloff responded, "the investigation into the charges against me was concluded. There was no trial, and I left as an ordinary free American citizen. In Zakharov's case, there was a trial...