Word: ashes
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...come from pop songs, Lucy was given the tongue- challenging classification Australopithecus afarensis. Many more remains of the species have turned up, including beautifully preserved footprints found in the mid-1970s in Tanzania by a team led by the famed archaeologist Mary Leakey. Set in solidified volcanic ash, the footprints confirmed that Lucy and her kin walked like humans. Some of the A. afarensis specimens date back about 3.9 million years B.P. (before the present), making them the oldest known hominid fossils...
...actually work, how they uncover fossils (the hard part) and how they analyze what they've found (the harder part). The earliest hint that his team had discovered an especially ancient human ancestor was a single knee joint plucked from the African dirt. It was old -- carefully dated volcanic ash in nearby rocks proved that. But it took laborious work by anatomist Owen Lovejoy to prove the knee belonged to a biped -- and thus, not entirely apelike -- primate. Lucy turned up nearby a year later, but it took weeks to piece her jumbled bones into a partial skeleton and years...
...come to an end. At midnight, long after the last beads had been thrown, the bars were closed and the cops kicked everyone out of the French Quarter--an annual ritual. I packed my suitcase and headed for the airport early the next morning. Fat Tuesday was over and Ash Wednesday was upon...
...Tuesday comes the day before Ash Wednesday on Christian calendars...
...barely been saved; the remains of Sean Penn's $4 million home were not yet cool; 75-ft. flames were still roaring through the canyon when Ron Ablott's men hit the charred hills above Malibu. Crawling on their hands and knees, occasionally slipping a minuscule piece of ash into a plastic bag, they obviously belonged there. But unlike thousands of public employees battling the conflagration below, they were not concerned with fighting fires, at least not any burning currently. They were engaged in a manhunt...