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Changes also had to take place in the femur, or thighbone. For example, the femoral neck--the bent portion at the top of the bone--is broader in humans than it is in apes, which improves balance. The human knee is specialized for walking upright too: to compensate for the thighbone's being at an angle, there's a lump, or groove, at the end of the femur that prevents the patella from sliding off the joint. "A chimp doesn't have this groove because there is no angulation between the hip and the knee," Lovejoy says. "This change says...
...There is one other potential problem: Security and inflexibility. The great thing about Sydney was that if things weren?t working according to plan, the Australians bent the rules and improvised, with wonderful ease. That just isn?t going to happen in China...
...unofficial capital of European anarchism. The Internet has long been home turf for the anti-globalization movement, which uses electronic organizing methods to rally cosmopolitan crowds for protest events in different cities around the world. The venue shift is all but an invitation to every hacker of vaguely anarchic bent to show that electronic disruption can be even more effective than the insurrectionist tactics of the street. Indeed, a World Bank spokesman conceded that "we've taken reasonable precautions, but if there is a major effort to close us down, I can't promise that the computers will hold...
...corner of the billiards room, in front of a group of princesses. After a minute, Dipendra returned. He strode up to the five wounded or dead relatives, including the King, and fired at them again, at point-blank range, and then targeted his sister Shruti as she bent over her injured husband. The final time, he left and returned to pump bullets into those he had already shot. Then Dipendra turned his gun toward Paras. His cousin shouted, "Nai, Dai! Nai Dai! (No, Brother! No, Brother!)" He didn't fire. The bodies of his mother and brother Nirajan were found...
...belt like a putter. He proceeds to whip it around in a counterclockwise loop, stopping as soon as his hands reach his chest. Then Ichiro uses his right hand to hold the bat parallel to his upper body. When he brings his right foot into the box, Ichiro?knees bent, left elbow cocked high?is ready for the pitch. This routine is repeated before every pitch. "Some people may think it's strange," says Ichiro, "but if something works, there's no need to change it." It works. Thanks in no small part to Ichiro and despite not having...