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...Pennsylvania State University, has announced the best evidence so far that a previously unknown species of hominid strode upright at least 4 million years ago. Their find, reported in last week's Nature, consists of complete upper and lower jaws, teeth from several individuals, a piece of skull, arm bones and a leg bone. Taken together, the fossils push the emergence of two-legged walking, or bipedalism, 500,000 years earlier than any other data had indicated. Says Walker: "This gets close to the hypothesized time of splitting of the ape and human lineages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON ITS OWN TWO FEET | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...undergoing. When we have a national debt of nearly $5 trillion, it is the height of arrogance to believe that anyone's pet programs should be sacred cows. This view, by the way, is not the partisan attack Hughes would have readers believe. Even the Progressive Policy Institute, an arm of the Democratic Leadership Council, stated in its 1993 Mandate for Change that it opposed federal funding for the arts and humanities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUTTING CULTURAL FUNDING: A REPLY | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

...friend; last summer Leahy invited the Dead to the Senate Dining Room, where the band met that noted groupie Strom Thurmond. "Boy, Ah heah you're a rock star," the orange-haired solon said, pulling Garcia out of his chair with a jerking handshake and a whap on the arm. According to an observer, Garcia was nonplussed. "Even back when I dropped acid," he remarked, "I never had an experience like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JERRY GARCIA: THE TRIP ENDS | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

...Chinese actress Gong Li and Hong Kong heartthrob Leslie Cheung, both of whom starred in Chen's 1993 hit, Farewell My Concubine. Gong Li picks up a TV remote and pretends it's a telephone ("Wei? Wei?"--"Hello?"), then playfully runs it under a prop man's arm as if she were a beautician with an electric shaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ASIAN INVASION | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

McVeigh: The federal agents had been there several hours letting the crowd and media build up. Twice I asked for a [bulletproof] vest, but no one gave me one. When I walked out, the agents with me were an arm's length away from me. I expected to be shot and killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AWAITING HIS DAY IN COURT | 8/14/1995 | See Source »

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