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...separated for three years--in part because of his philandering. Returning in 1978 to a site in Tanzania called Laetoli, Mary made what she considered the discovery of a lifetime: the unmistakable footprints of a human ancestor, possibly Australopithecus afarensis, in the region's 3.6 million-year-old volcanic ash. Not only were these hominids walking upright--rather than on all fours as apes do--but they were doing it much earlier than nearly everyone supposed and without the big brains long considered necessary for bipedalism...
...genuinely independent states, it will have the support of all its members and of the world at large. But if Russia tries to make "commonwealth" into a euphemism for domination of its neighbors, then the C.I.S. will deserve to join that previous set of initials--U.S.S.R.--on the ash heap of history...
...figure if other students can smoke there during the year, we should be able to too," said Seema N. Patel, a summer school student. "If they want to keep things clean, all they have to do is put up some nice, pretty ash trays. That'll take care of the problem...
...fried egg, over easy. And a couple of griddle cakes, each the size of a catcher's mitt. All of which will jiggle around the middle of her breakfast companion, who's having the same. But in the white-hot furnace that drives Janet Evans, it will burn to ash well before her three hours of afternoon tank time are finished and her daily weight-room session begins...
Technology shares. The tech stocks have risen from the ashes before, but right now they seem to be sinking into deeper ash. There is no shortage of merchandise in the computer stores, with more gizmos coming off the assembly line every day. Today's high-tech marvels may be obsolete tomorrow...