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While WT 15000 has the beetled brow, small cranium (700 to 800 cubic centimeters, about half that of modern man) and short forehead associated with virtually all human precursors, his size surprised the scientists. From the development of his teeth, they knew that the hominid died in his youth, about age twelve. But the length of his thigh bones and the size of his vertebrae indicate that he stood about 5 ft. 4 in. tall and may have weighed as much as 150 lbs. This was the size hitherto postulated by scientists for a full-grown Homo erectus...
...beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis (and not, as legend would have it, to a South Pacific shark), he considered himself "not handicapped, merely inconvenienced...
Reagan's smooth brow furrowed. A shadow crossed his eyes. "I know that this is oversimplification," he said, "but it's the only way to answer the question. Basically the Democratic Party has said, 'We'll take care of you. We'll see that you have food and shelter.' But then what is he? He is as beholden to that Government institution as he was beholden in slavery to the fellow who lived in the big house on the hill...
...home base for the worldwide Church of God. They do more than just prepare for a competition, they foretell it, envision it and rehearse it, complete with sound effects. "It's like playing a whole game of chess in your mind," says Sneider, who used to wipe the brow of Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer before matches. Mystically, Stones says, "some things about jumping came to me recently in training sessions, things that were apparently so obvious I missed them. I don't know why they came to me after so many years. I asked Harry why after...
...flatbed truck carrying Joseph Papp's touring Free Shakespeare Festival broke down near Belvedere Lake, Central Park has served as the backdrop, the chorus and occasionally the antagonist of the Bard's plays. So, as the storm clouds of war form on King Henry's brow, the summer sun sets abruptly, leaving audience and players in the dark. Henry addresses his troops before battle, and some low-flying aircraft provide martial rumblings. Henry and Katharine share their first kiss, and a police siren serendipitously whoops for joy. Is all the world a stage? Then Manhattan...